Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … remittances from high-income developed countries, tend to have housing built of concrete rather than mud and greater access to …

forecasting country-level remittance flows in a manner consistent with the medium-term outlook for the global economy. Remittances …

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 …