Despite the sharply increasing remittances in developing countries (especially in the AsiaPacific region), the … relationship between remittances and domestic investment in recipient countries has not been fluently evidenced. This paper aims to … fill the empirical gap in the Asia-Pacific region by investigating the impact of remittances on domestic investment with a …

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 … remittances from high-income developed countries, tend to have housing built of concrete rather than mud and greater access to …