remittances in a panel of 41 Sub-Saharan African countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that on average … rainfall shocks have an insignificant contemporaneous effect on remittances. However, the marginal effect is significantly … significant negative effect on remittances, while at low levels of credit to GDP the effect of rainfall on remittances is …

Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …

Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …

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 …

The paper explored (1) the impact of remittances on financial development and (2) whether the interaction between … remittances and human capital development had an influence on financial development in transitional economies using the dynamic … GMM approach, with data ranging from 1996 to 2014. Remittances were found to have had a non-significant positive influence …

Weltweit erreichen Überweisungen von Migranten in ihr Heimatland (Remittances) ein Ausmaß, das die offizielle … bedeutendsten Herkunftsländer. Aus der Sicht der Empfängerländer spielen Remittances häufig eine große gesamtwirtschaftliche Rolle … Höhe der Remittances von persönlichen Merkmalen abhängt - z. B. vom Alter, der Ausbildung, dem Familienstand oder dem …

It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on remittances, payments, and development. We describe many of … why these questions dominate, the most important of which is that researchers tend to view remittances as states do (as …

This research assesses the relevance of enhancing remittances on value added across economic sectors in sub … to the agricultural sector are apparent. Second, enhancing remittances engenders a positive net effect on added value to … unfavourable net incidence of remittances to the service sector is associated with a positive marginal or conditional effect, the …

This paper discusses migration and remittances trends, and calculates the natural (or benchmark) level of dollarization … remittances due to the economic slowdown since the spread of COVID-19 affects the macroeconomic fundamentals that determine demand …