swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa …. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …