"Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the …

countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic … international migration from the perspective of developing countries, with special attention to the money that migrants send home … attention to remittances. The first chapter reviews recent developments in and prospects for the global economy and their …

migrants’ attitudes and behaviors in sending remittances, in engaging in investments and savings, and to explore changes across … decade, as a general framework of the study (chapter two). The connection between the labor market integration of migrants … transnational activities of migrants. Chapter three presents the objectives of the research and the related survey design and …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in … Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which is at the top of the ranking of remittances receiving regions in the world … migration and remittances patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence for LAC is restricted to …