This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important issue given recent … data for El Salvador, the authors examine the impact of remittances on households' use of savings and credit instruments … from formal financial institutions. They find that although remittances have a positive impact on financial inclusion by …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important issue given recent … data for El Salvador, the authors examine the impact of remittances on households' use of savings and credit instruments … from formal financial institutions. They find that although remittances have a positive impact on financial inclusion by …

Despite the rising volume of remittances flowing to developing countries, their impact on banking sector breadth and … fraction of households that receive remittances and on measures of banking breadth and depth for Mexico. They find that … remittances are strongly associated with greater banking breadth and depth, increasing the number of branches and accounts per …

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 …