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 … foreign private capital flees an economy suffering from terrorism whereas migrant remittances are the only financial flows …

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants’ skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between remittances, financial sector development, and … economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1981 to 2017. The study used the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to … are bound together in the long-run. The results also showed that remittances have a negative and significant effect on …

In this study, we examine the mediating roles of institutions in the remittances growth relationship for some reasons … revealed that remittances inflow positively influence growth, but when institutional factors interact with the remittances … results revealed that remittances inflow was negatively related with growth, but when interacted with institutional measures …

investments in Africa, and information provided by more than 75 UK companies operating in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa …

This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …