The dominant role of remittances in Comoros’s economy presents policymakers with important challenges and … domestic product, indicators of tourism, consolidated government financial operations, breakdown of staffing levels, summary …

paper, the size and the sources of remittances to Armenia are first discussed. Then, the appropriate definition of … remittances and subsequently present estimates of the macroeconomic effects of remittances to Armenia are outlined. Remittances … constitute from 25 percent to 80 percent of remittance receivers’ incomes. …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the surprising strength of remittances in Bangladesh and other countries in South … Asia and the Philippines in 2009. The empirical analysis suggests that the continued strong growth of remittances in these … of migrant workers from South Asia during 2006–08. The remittances-to-GDP ratio in South Asia and the Philippines are …

world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP. Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP … official remittances to the Caribbean region. The results suggest that there is indeed some evidence for brain drain from the …

This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance … GDP, private consumption and private investment in regional countries are strongly associated with remittance outflows …

Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries … is a complex decision involving other factors, and different variables driving remittance behavior are differently …' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price … results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid inflows significantly dampen the effect of food price shocks … in the most vulnerable countries. Second, a lower remittance-to-GDP ratio is required in order to fully absorb the …

The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … Pakistani workers. This paper analyses the forces that have driven remittance flows to Pakistan in recent years. The main … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker …

Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows … 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 …

This Selected Issues paper on Samoa reports that remittances are the main source of foreign exchange to the Samoan … economy. In addition to remittances, travel credits also play an important role in the economy. Official transfers are also … significant, and should remain an important source of balance-of-payments support over the medium term. Remittances are relatively …