In Bangladesh, remittances have increased sharply over the last 20 years and amount since 2008 to over 10 percent of … GDP. While remittances can foster growth and development as well as prevent balance of payment crises, they can also have …, which would affect economic growth negatively. In this paper an attempt is made to analyze the impact of remittances on …

trajectories, socio-demographic profile, the importance of remittances to Bangladesh, and the impact that Italian migration policy … has had upon this group, as well as other non-EU nationals more generally. In this paper rural household micro … quantitative data have been collected from Bangladesh to explore the relationship between legal status, remittance and …

socioeconomic impacts in remittance-receiving households in rural Bangladesh. Using micro-economic data from a survey conducted in … determinants (migrant age, marital status and number of visits; household head age, marital status and employment status) and … the importance of differentiating religious backgrounds when analysing the determinants of remittances …

In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …

This paper examines the behavior of remittances over the business cycle and their potential to act as a stabilizer … remittances depends on the motives to remit. Second, remittances are less volatile than other foreign currency flows but do not … appear to systemically co-move with business cycle fluctuations. Third, remittances are relatively stable even during …

The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 … determinants of remittances originating from the United States for a diverse set of approximately 3,800 households with at least … notably, higher household earnings push monetary transfers abroad: We estimate an average earnings elasticity in the range of …

How remittances contribute to the economies of remittance-receiving developing countries is a global issue. Considering … Nepal as a highly remittance-receiving country, this paper primarily examines the impact of remittances on economic growth … the effects of remittances on economic growth. The bound test approach of cointegration and the error correction model …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … exports with Germany to total exports with Germany and remittances as a ratio of Turkish GDP. The results of this study show …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of … remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants …