world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set …This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

The diffusion of cost-effective life saving technologies has reduced infant mortality in much of the developing world … may have been more than 1 million "excess" deaths in the developing world since 1980 as a result of large, negative …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this … examine the determinants of remittances. The paper finds that the skill composition of migrants does matter in remittance … determination. Countries which export a larger share of high-skilled (educated) migrants receive less per capita remittances than …

Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the … findings provide strong support for the notion that remittances promote financial development in developing countries. …

This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank of central banks in 40 developing countries … across different regions in the world. The survey focused on the following topics: (1) coverage of national statistics on … remittances, (2) cost of transferring and delivering remittances, (3) regulatory regime for remittance transactions, and (4 …

international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the … probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and low cyclicality of remittances … as compared with other private capital flows: these properties, combined with the fact that remittances are cheap inflows …