This study investigates the effects of remittances on education and health outcomes using a 5-year interval data on 46 … Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1975 to 2014. Employing system GMM, remittances were found to significantly …

This paper empirically investigates the effects of remittances on access to financial services in 26 Sub …-Saharan African countries over the period 2004-2015. We find that remittances have a significantly positive impact on financial access … Estimation that accounts for the endogenous relationship between remittances and financial access and that controls for any bias …

This paper examines the micro-level link between migrant remittances and state legitimacy. The paper argues that there … are two theoretical channels through which remittances may ultimately erode state legitimacy. First, remittance income … those state institutions enact. Second, remittances provide funds for political mobilization and thus may enhance uprisings …

Remittances play an important role in human capital development in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly when it comes to … the continent lack the financial systems to efficiently facilitate the inflows of remittances and allow them to be used to … 2030 . This paper examines the impact of remittances on human capital development from 1996-2016 in sub-Saharan Africa and …

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of financial development and remittances on economic growth across … financial development and remittances on economic growth with regard to WBC. Based on system GMM analysis, we found that … financial development (broad money stock ratio) and remittances shows positive impact on economic growth across WBC. However …

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to afflict much of the global economy, the flow of African remittances is likely to … pandemic on African remittances and highlights the key responses undertaken in the continent, which could be useful and …, and restrictions on travel and high cost of sending remittances to their home country.As aresult, remittances to Africa …

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 … and net effect on economic growth from the interaction between remittances and oil rent. In addition, the unconditional …

The present study aims at investigating the nexus between unemployment and remittances in Ghana, with a focus on the …, remittances, inflation, FDI, exports of goods and services, and gross capital formation all have a long-run association with the … unemployment rate. Remittances positively correlate with unemployment in the long run. All else being equal, remittances in Ghana …

literature with little attention on remittances and the joint effect of financial sector development and remittances. This paper … uses macrodata to examine the linkages between financial development, remittances and economic growth in Ghana. We estimate … combined effect of financial development and remittances should be of concern to policymakers. …