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 …

The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly …, but they also find suggestive evidence that this effect may be short-lived as both remittances and agricultural income are …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

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 …

associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …

Through substitution and income effects, remittances can alter an individual's allocation of time between market … 2006 and 2014 to estimate the impact of remittances on labor supply in the three countries of the Northern Triangle (El … Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). The results show that remittances are associated with a reduction in labor force …

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 …