by immigrants. We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social … relations with relatives and friends and religious/charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. Using … remittances to persons and to charities by both the Canadian and foreign-born populations. We conclude that expenditures to …

international remittances on sustainability of family livelihood in small mining town of Chegutu located in Mashonaland West … mainly from the late 1990s. Migration can be individual or household strategy for survival and remittances play a role in … Province of Zimbabwe using survey data. I found out that remittances go a long way in providing income for basic services like …

We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with … relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions … as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We …

motivation in the framework of extended family agreements, we embed remittances in a formal demand system, suggesting that they … analysing the determinants of remittances. …

In this paper, we analyse the possible channels through which informality, remittances and migration could interact and … consequently affect growth in Mexico. In order to do so, we develop a simple endogenous growth model that allows for remittances … regarding the effects of the informal sector on economic growth. Moreover, thanks to globalization, migration and remittances …

' remittances, pre-transfer income and consumption. In order to take into account the fact that a large share of individuals do not …

This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by … developing a model which predicts that migrants’ remittances would lead to the reduction of social conflict in the recipient … economy under the condition that remittances increase the average product of labour. Using homicides data as an indicator of …

This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for … ability of sub-Saharan African countries to harness remittances for development. Besides remitting home for altruistic reasons …

This paper aims to analyse migration and remittances in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) on the case … Ukrainian Migration Project (UMP). More specifically, it seeks to examine features and determinants of migration and remittances … receiving household. Moreover, we did not find any support for channelling remittances primarily into non-productive consumption …