The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …

This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on household consumption expenditure and poverty in … Bangladesh using computable general equilibrium modeling of the Bangladesh economy and microeconometric analysis at the household … level. The former assesses the economic effects and distributional implications of remittances at the macro, sectoral, and …