"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 …

"Remittances-money sent home by immigrant workers abroad-are hugely beneficial to Sri Lanka. Migrants' remittances have …

practical insights in support of enhancing the climate resilience of infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This first introductory chapter starts with an overview of the investment conditions and climatic context in the region …

affect private investment. Then they describe their empirical framework, which is based on a vector autoregression (VAR …) model that accounts for flows and (quality-adjusted) stocks of public infrastructure, private investment, as well as changes … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan …

) financial system infrastructure, including payments, remittances transfers, and credit information systems; (v) capital market …

"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …, cross-country empirical analysis shows that economywide saving and investment in China are higher than what would be …-saving and investment would both decline only mildly in the coming two decades, with ambiguous impact on the current account …

"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries …-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform … several policy debates. Key findings include: (1) investment by enterprises distinguishes China from other countries and …