little reason to expect large growth effects of remittances in the origin economy. Migration and remittances clearly have …While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … detecting their effect on economic growth. We review existing explanations for this puzzle and propose three new ones. First, we …

find that remittances exert a weakly positive impact on long-term macroeconomic growth. The paper also considers the …There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants’ remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …

This paper investigates the long run growth effects of the external factors like export and import, foreign direct … investment, and foreign remittances in South Asian countries. To estimate the same the Panel cointegration and Panel Dynamic … increase in the GDP (p=05), and a 1 percent increase in the remittances can cause 0.0856 percent increase in the GDP of the …

, document a significant adverse impact of remittances' volatility on banking and stock market development suggesting that … volatile remittances do not allow migrants' families to invest in financial products offered by financial institutions and …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …