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 …

period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the …

this setup, climate change could add to risks. A panel fixed effects model (1980 to 2019) found that the effect of a 1◦C … rise in temperature decreases income per capita growth in fragile states in SSA by 1.8 percentage points. Panel quantile …

income distributions. Using novel high-frequency household panel data for Georgia and the Kyrgyz Republic and a difference … countries. Our results have important policy implications. Although remittances remained resilient during the pandemic, they …

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 …

remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and … (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of remittances on economic volatilities. Results suggest that while (i …) large remittances can be stabilizing on average, (ii) high remittance concentration from source countries can aggravate …