The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …

remittances are not statistically significant in promoting inclusive growth in Africa. Notably, across the economic growth and … development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that … income inequality dimensions of inclusive growth, we find that although remittances are ineffective in boosting the former …

Migrant remittances reached 21 billion dollars in SSA in 2008 according to the World Bank estimates. Despite these … existing studies on the impact of remittances in SSA have been mostly in the form of case studies at the microeconomic level or … reports. The objective of our study is to fill in this gap by investigating the impact of remittances on savings and …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers' remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American … countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances … have become an important source of income for many developing countries and, as a global aggregate, workers' remittances …

migrants’ remittances on financial inclusion in selected SSA countries. Pooled Mean Group (PMG) form of panel ARDL was employed … robustness checks. For the purpose of this empirical investigation, we collected data on Remittances, Account Ownership and … Income Per Capita for 27 SSA countries based on data availability. The conclusion is that remittances have no significant …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …