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 …

analyze the impact of terrorism in Pakistan on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investments, and … migrant remittances. We find that FDI decreases substantially as a result of terrorist activity, whereas portfolio investments … show little change. In contrast, migrant remittances show a significant increase. These differences are also evident in …

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 …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … migration to Germany and tested the model for the 1969-2004, using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating vector is …