With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries …. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has … impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets. Our …

language, fit remittance flows well. Remittances also react to inflation and exchange rate movements in recipient countries to … sustain their purchasing power. In line with the altruism hypothesis, remittances flow to countries with higher age dependency … ratio. Remittances are countercyclical and help stabilize outputs in recipient countries. However, global shocks resulting …

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By … including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is … problems associated with remittances preclude crosscountry empirical investigation, the paper illustrates these findings with …

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 …

economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter …

-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 …

This paper discusses migration and remittances trends, and calculates the natural (or benchmark) level of dollarization … remittances due to the economic slowdown since the spread of COVID-19 affects the macroeconomic fundamentals that determine demand …

quantify how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household's remittances propagates through the network … 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 …

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 countries …