remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … offers support for a number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering …

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 … extensive literature that has documented the growth-enhancing and poverty-reducing effects of financial development. The …

United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing …

Existing empirical evidence indicates that remittances have a positive impact on a good number of development … remittances on the real exchange rate. The findings suggest that remittances indeed appear to lead to a significant real exchange …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important issue given recent … data for El Salvador, the authors examine the impact of remittances on households'use of savings and credit instruments … from formal financial institutions. They find that although remittances have a positive impact on financial inclusion by …

The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households'spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …, allowing more consumption and investment. In particular, remittances can afford investing in children's human capital, a key …

-sectional analysis suggests that remittances have some impact on labor supply, especially on labor market participation. The pseudo panel … data analysis also confirms that remittances have a strong impact on labor participation but not on weekly working hours …

, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda -- to investigate the link between international remittances and households'financial inclusion … in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds that receiving international remittances increases the probability that the … remittances, using as instruments indicators of the migrants'economic conditions in the destination countries. …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remittance products. But it does not change either the frequency or level of remittances. …