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 …

remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that … remittances play a key role in terms of ex ante risk preparedness for those countries that experienced more disruptive events in …, remittances seem to substitute for less efficient financial systems both in terms of ex post response to disasters and in terms of …

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 …

The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …