We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking …

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing … find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also … of disaster shocks on the real exchange rate and on the level of remittances across the two samples. …

disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a … percentage of households living below the poverty line and seeks to identify whether flows of remittances alleviate the post …

(with logit inflation) to model the international migration decision-process of households, and endogenous regressors … issues to assess the impact of remittances on labour market outcomes. The results in terms of a decline of labour supply in … the presence of remittances are in line with those observed thus far in the literature. However, the impact of …

. We present single equation estimates on remittances and financial inclusion, and system estimates in which economic … growth is explained by e.g., financial inclusion, and financial inclusion by, e.g., remittances inflows. These regressions … clearly confirm our main hypothesis that remittances have a development impact through their effect on financial inclusion …

This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early … childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shockprone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the …'s migration has a positive effect on early cognitive development. We attribute these findings to changes in income and to the …

determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we study the impact of return migration on the characteristics and …