undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants’ remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …

Using data on the distribution of migrants from Africa, GDP growth forecasts for host countries, and after estimating … percentage points, with migrants to Europe hardest hit while migrants within Africa relatively unaffected by the crisis. The …

This paper investigates the channels through which remittances affect macroeconomic volatility in African countries … that remittances - as a share of GDP - have a significant smoothing impact on output volatility but their impact on … consumption volatility is somewhat small. Furthermore, remittances are found to absorb a substantial amount of GDP shocks in these …

Family remittances are important for El Salvador's economy. This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on El … formulated, consisting of real and monetary variables. The results suggest that in, El Salvador, remittances lead to decreases in …. This underscores the need for reorienting economic policy in El Salvador to promote the use of remittances in capital …

-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been accounted for. It focuses on import prices to reflect the vulnerability … and income per capita. On the other hand, while remittances seem to dampen the adverse effect of import food price shocks …

remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the home country, the negative impact from emigration on labor … resources and productivity seems to outweigh growth gains from remittances, notably for the Caribbean. However, given emigration …

how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household's remittances propagates through the network of … linkages on sectoral and total output following an increase in remittances inflows. Our empirical results suggest that the … effects of remittances on recipient economies increase with the degree of linkages across sectors, which is especially …