This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … development. Yet these gains might come at substantial social costs to the migrants and their families. Since many developing …

"Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the …

countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …