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 …

We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries … over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that …

recession factors. Using panel data of 129 countries spanning 1990-2010, we implemented "Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing … independently to the estimation method. Thus during economic crises of recession, policymakers should hold-on regional integration …