The literature on remittances and growth has thus far established a positive link between remittances and overall … economic growth in recipient countries. We identify the main transmission channel through which remittances seem to exert their …-country cross-industry variation, and correcting for the endogeneity of remittances by constructing a set of external instruments …

access to financial markets and test whether remittances are countercyclical and serve as an insurance mechanism against … secular increase in the trend growth of remittances and random cyclical fluctuations around this trend. In a purely … households facing an increasing trend for remittances. A flexible floating regime is preferred when unanticipated shocks driving …

have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and … how this relationship varies depending on the channel of transmission from remittances to aid. Buoyant remittances could … remittances may dampen donors' incentive to scale up aid. Concurrently, remittances could be positively associated with aid if …

deprivation in infrastructure and the multi-dimensional index, while we find no significant results for remittances sent to the …

Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international … understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources …

The Philippines is the fourth largest recipient of remittances in the world with booming information and communications …, remittances interaction with financial development and ICT, trade openness and overseas development assistance (ODA) vis …-à-vis income for the period 1976 to 2010 using ARDL bounds approach. The results show remittances and remittances interaction with …