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 …

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 …

development vis-à-vis income in Pakistan for the periods 1980-2010 using the bounds procedure within the augmented Solow …-model approach. In the long-run, trade openness, ODA, and remittances have a significant positive effect on the income level, while … while remittances, trade openness and financial development have lagged negative effects. Therefore, understanding that aid …

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 …

structural equation path models is estimated. In the modeling part, poverty traps result from large fixed costs or high …

One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality …