conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However … trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … migration and a sharp growth in the remittances-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio; in 2011/12 it was about 23%. The …

countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …

, as we explain below. Finally, the relationship between remittances and inequality appears to be non …-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided …

Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … effect of remittances and foreign direct investment is lower on economic growth and inequality than the individual effect of … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances …