-based systems, and their impact on the choice of migrants to send remittances. Secondly we discuss whether alternative remittances … countries. We find that in comparison to traditional remittances sending channels, mobile money transfer channels are often …, availability and access to the remittances by receiving households or security of transactions. More importantly,mobile cash …

staggering amount of remittances outflow of the GCC economies plays a stabilizing role as a tacit monetary policy tool …. Incorporating remittances in the money demand equation results in a more robust model than otherwise. We further find that the …