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 … attention to remittances. The first chapter reviews recent developments in and prospects for the global economy and their … policies in improving the development impact of remittances, and, their macroeconomic impact. Chapter 5 addresses the impact of …

intermediation. Working with a panel of cross-country and time-series observations, they estimate an encompassing model of short- and … panel growth regressions. This paper--a product of the Growth and Investment Team, Development Research Group--is part of a … larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …

findings provide strong support for the notion that remittances promote financial development in developing countries. "--World …"Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the …

the macroeconomy"--World Bank web site …

panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants … are the price of investment goods, distance to major world cities, and political rights. This suggests that growth … different prior assumptions on expected model size. "--World Bank web site …

Finance Group, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the growth finance link"--World …