Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … migrants, rather than characteristics of their family situations, explains much of the higher remittances. …

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

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … variables approach to control for selection and endogeneity, it finds that international remittances have a large statistical … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …

forecasting country-level remittance flows in a manner consistent with the medium-term outlook for the global economy. Remittances …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … migration options, developing new savings and remittance products that allow migrants more control over how their money is used … offers support for a number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering …

, 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. …