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 …

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 … 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. …

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions … bilateral remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 87 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. Remittances are … eases access to financial services for migrants and reduces transaction costs, is positively associated with remittances …

Although measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …. First, it offers evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory -- arising from … the greatest driver of rising remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the …