Despite the sharply increasing remittances in developing countries (especially in the AsiaPacific region), the … relationship between remittances and domestic investment in recipient countries has not been fluently evidenced. This paper aims to … fill the empirical gap in the Asia-Pacific region by investigating the impact of remittances on domestic investment with a …

That remittances are a stable source of external finance seems to have become the received wisdom. In addition, many … studies have found remittances to behave counter-cyclically, increasing during crises and times of hardship for the recipient … countries. Are remittances reliable macroeconomic stabilizers? To answer this question, the present study examines the stability …