This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances on poverty alleviation and income distribution are found to be stronger when the more rigorous, counterfactual income …We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

Formal remittance flows to Pakistan have shown noticeable growth over the past decade. Using bilateral remittance data … suitable to control for unobserved heterogeneity as well as simultaneous bias existing between remittances and migrant's stock …. The main novelty with respect to the existing literature is the use of transaction costs of remittances as a superior …

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between … remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in … particular how local financial sector development influences a country's capacity to take advantage of remittances Using a newly …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …

In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …

volatility is increased by trade openness and inflation, but remittances have a mixed effect. In order to benefit from financial …

robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …

The paper explored (1) the impact of remittances on financial development and (2) whether the interaction between … remittances and human capital development had an influence on financial development in transitional economies using the dynamic … GMM approach, with data ranging from 1996 to 2014. Remittances were found to have had a non-significant positive influence …