Migration reshapes rural economies in ways that may go beyond the contribution of migrant remittances to household … income. Consumption and investment expenditures by migrant-sending households may transmit some of the impacts of migration … source household. Numerous studies have attempted to quantify the impact of migrant remittances on expenditures in migrant …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … base suggests some areas of policy success: bilateral migration agreements for countries whose workers have few other … 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 … investment. The authors use data on workers'remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the …

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

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 …