and migrants’ remittances on fiscal consolidation in these countries. Using two definitions of fiscal adjustment and a … gradual fiscal retrenchment), remittances increase the likelihood of fiscal consolidation, be the latter gradual or rapid …

This paper explores the role of remittances and foreign aid inflows during food price shocks. The results yield four …

This paper tests for the assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit by comparing the response to health …. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households’ demand for financing emergencies and make …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. Using household-level survey data for El … Salvador, we examine whether remittances affect households’ use of savings and credit instruments from formal financial … institutions. We find that although remittances have a positive impact on financial inclusion by promoting the use of deposit …

, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural–urban migration and international remittances …

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers’ remittances and … remittances to GDP leads to lower indices of control of corruption, government effectiveness, and rule of law, even after …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross-country differences in portfolio values … are found to change with the length of migration spells suggestive that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more …

of international migration and remittances on crop income of rural farmers in the Kyrgyz Republic. Unlike other studies … we allow the impact of remittances to be different for farmers with different land size and test whether reduced labor … negative effect on crop income, but only for permanent migrants. Remittances partially compensate for this, but their positive …

The paper looks at the impact of migration and workers’ remittances on the competitiveness of the home economy. It … extends existing research that concentrated on the exchange rate effects of remittances, the so-called Dutch disease effect …, by adding labor market effects. The results show that the labor market effects of emigration and remittances have a …

Few studies have researched the use of remittances in conflict-affected contexts. This study analyzes unique data from … Migration studies, employing propensity score matching. Results show that remittances are common among wealthier households …, rejecting the relative deprivation hypothesis. Remittances have strong effects on non-productive assets, such as living …