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 …

remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that … remittances play a key role in terms of ex ante risk preparedness for those countries that experienced more disruptive events in …, remittances seem to substitute for less efficient financial systems both in terms of ex post response to disasters and in terms of …

The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …

. Remittances can help reduce output growth volatility thanks to their considerable magnitude, stability and low pro …Since output growth volatility has negative effects on growth, poverty and welfare, especially in poorer countries, it … variable, the one related to the increasingly important phenomenon of international migrations, namely emigrants' remittances …