Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were … send remittances have been adversely affected. The global nature of this crisis raises several questions such as whether it … examines remittances data to several Asian countries to shed light on such issues. The results suggest that while remittance …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988–2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect … home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth. A 10% increase in remittances as a share of GDP leads to …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth … the variance inflation factors (VIF). In our case the variance inflation factor for remittances depends on the use of a … of remittances is positive. …

This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it … estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly, separate analyses are undertaken for 29 … developing countries and 21 Asian developing counties, which have 5 per cent or more share of remittances in GDP. …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of remittances on informal employment in the migrants …. The endogeneity of remittances is dealt with instrumental variables following the two-stage residual inclusion technique …. To assess possible impact of remittances on non-migrant households, conditional correlations between the labour market …

, foreign remittances, broad money and real interest rate on housing prices in the case of Pakistan was found. On the other hand … and urbanization on housing prices, whereas the positive impact of GDP per capita, foreign remittances, broad money and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of international remittances on different household … members. It examines how international remittances are spent for production and consumption by receiving households. Design …/methodology/approach – This paper uses fixed‐effect regressions to estimate the impact of international remittances on household spending in …