Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

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 …

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 …

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 …

effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's Himalayan forests. The authors assemble a unique village-panel dataset … rural economic growth spurred by remittances has had an overall positive impact on forests. The paper also finds that … remittances caused an increase in rural wages and an increase in income, but a decrease in land prices. Considered together …

This paper aims to investigate empirically how international migration and remittances in Indonesia, particularly …, female migration and their remittances tend to reduce child labor. The estimated impacts of migration and remittances on …

This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … flows, leveraging remittances for improving access to finance of recipient households and countries, improving recruitment …

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 …