Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a … social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions …

robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …

African nations have in time, passed over-relied on remittances inflow to augment domestic finances needed for growth …. Despite the volume and magnitude of remittances that have to serve as an alternative source of investment financing, African … remains mostly underdeveloped. The altruistic motives of sending remittances to Africa are likely to fade with time. In this …

This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …

robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on investment. Workers’ remittances to developing countries have grown to … countries and how they interact with remittances is stressed. Data on remittance flow to 79 developing countries during 1995 …-2005 is used. Dynamic panel data approach is applied for this purpose. The results reveal that remittances, high quality …

, document a significant adverse impact of remittances' volatility on banking and stock market development suggesting that … volatile remittances do not allow migrants' families to invest in financial products offered by financial institutions and …

looks into the following areas: (a) remittance and overall growth, (b) linkages between remittances and microfinance, (c …This paper considers the present issues surrounding the role of workers remittances and its contribution/effect on … economic growth and development. In particular, this paper focuses on how such remittances have been able to spur development …