Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

Relying on survey data from Huedin, a town in Romania, we seek to provide an empirical evidence for the hypothesis … according to which remittances could have either a positive or negative developmental impact at community level. For this, we … inquire about the perceptions of migratory processes with focus on the possible effects of remittances in the local economy …

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 …

migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker …

receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA … swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

incentives can influence decisions about return migration. This paper has two aims: (1) identification of the strategies adopted … by Polish emigrants that can explain their returns to the home country and (2) the verification of two major migration … theories (the classical approach versus the "New Economics of Migration" approach). The analysis is based mainly on data coming …