; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …