economic activity are observed to facilitate remittance inflows. The authors confirm the resilience of remittances during the … that could understate the macro-economic impact of remittances and lead to inadequate policy formulation. The use of an … enhanced gravity model on a newly created bilateral data set in the analysis is a nuance in the economics of remittances …

and low and concentrated access to credit, the large role played by domestic banks in distributing remittances seems … Recipients and the Impact of Remittances -- Remittance Distribution Industry and Potential for Increased Access to Financial …. Relative Importance of Remittances at Macroeconomic Level in Guatemala vs. Selected Latin American Countries -- B. Addenda on …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in … Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which is at the top of the ranking of remittances receiving regions in the world … migration and remittances patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence for LAC is restricted to …

Several economies in the Caribbean region, especially from the lower income group, are highly dependent on remittances …. Between 1991 and 2006, the combined flows of total remittances reaching the Caribbean have seen almost a 17% average annual … growth rate, surpassing USD 6billion in 2005 and overtaking ODA and FDI into the region. In addition, remittances represent …

grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques …. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real … and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in t …

We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives …-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work …

overview of remittances and migration between the Honduras and the United State. The report analyzes the remittance regulatory … the impacts of remittances on the Honduran economy. The chapter 2 provides analysis of remittance market env …