This paper empirically investigates the effects of remittances on access to financial services in 26 Sub …-Saharan African countries over the period 2004-2015. We find that remittances have a significantly positive impact on financial access … Estimation that accounts for the endogenous relationship between remittances and financial access and that controls for any bias …

remittances--the resources of some of the world's least affluent people--have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental … remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a … countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances …

International remittances by immigrants to their home countries is key in the funding development in migrant …-enhancing effect of remittances. Thus, the study helps explain the development dilemma of remittance inflows and financial inclusion in …