Migrants' remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and …

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an … unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line … microeconomic level remittances raise incomes and have an impact on consumption expenses and therefore on welfare. They can also …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …