Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he … finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the poverty …The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … education raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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 …

strong determinant of educational outcomes among the children in all the countries. Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Uganda …