The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly …, but they also find suggestive evidence that this effect may be short-lived as both remittances and agricultural income are …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … variables approach to control for selection and endogeneity, it finds that international remittances have a large statistical … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …

in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables …

Workers'remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about … their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in … robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances. Household …