, 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 …

Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more …

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 …