This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …

Despite the established link between oil rent fluctuations and remittances received, its plausible joint effect on … positive macroeconomic signals such as remittances mitigate the negative effect of oil rents on economic growth in a sample of … marginal and net effect on economic growth from the interaction between remittances and oil rent. Also, the unconditional …

African nations have in time, passed over-relied on remittances inflow to augment domestic finances needed for growth …. Despite the volume and magnitude of remittances that have to serve as an alternative source of investment financing, African … remains mostly underdeveloped. The altruistic motives of sending remittances to Africa are likely to fade with time. In this …

The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development …. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …'s financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis …

a huge chunk of remittance back to Nigeria. The study focuses on what implications remittances may have for unemployment … inflow of remittances when curbing unemployment. The study further recommends that there is the need to deliberately … remittances. …

Despite the magnitude of remittances as an alternative source of investment financing in Africa, the financial sector … examine the structural linkages between remittances and financial sector development in Africa. Panel data on indices of … remittances was regressed on indices of financial sector development in fifty-three (53) African countries from 1986 through 2017 …

In this study, we examine the mediating roles of institutions in the remittances growth relationship for some reasons … revealed that remittances inflow positively influence growth, but when institutional factors interact with the remittances … results revealed that remittances inflow was negatively related with growth, but when interacted with institutional measures …

This study examines the impact of remittances and information and communication technology (ICT) on pension at the … remittances, ICT and pension income coverage. First, we find a convex relation between remittances and pension income coverage … certain point, so too does pension income coverage. This inflection point, where the effect of remittances turns from negative …

flows, namely: development assistance, foreign investment and remittances. Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit, Fixed effects … threshold and (iii) 25 (% of GDP) is the critical mass of remittances. At the established critical masses or thresholds …