This paper identifies a remittances channel that transmits exogenous shocks, such as business cycles in remittance … Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, three types of results emerge. First, remittances appear to be strongly … procyclical vis-à-vis sending country income. Second, remittances tend to be spent on consumption of both imported and …

We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …

estimates a gravity model for workers' remittances. We find that most of the variation in bilateral remittance flows can be … commonly believed. Most strikingly, remittances do not seem to increase in the wake of a natural disaster and appear aligned … with the business cycle in the home country, suggesting that remittances may not play a major role in limiting …

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers' remittances and …, even after controlling for potential reverse causality. We find that a higher ratio of remittances to GDP is associated …

decline when the island's currency weakens, undermining their usefulness as shock absorber. On the other hand, remittances …. The procyclicality of remittances calls into question the notion that remittances are largely motivated by altruism. …

We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …