From 1994 to 2006, the average household saving rate in the Philippines declined by 5.2 percentage points to about a … patterns are best explained by the extended coverage of social security system during the 1990s in the Philippines. Less …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using … the SGMM method, estimates based on data from 27 developing countries show that remittances have a positive and … significant effect on economic growth. The results don’t allow drawing any definitive conclusion concerning the investment channel …

In view of the sizable increase in recorded migrant workers’ remittances to developing countries from $70 billion in … 2000 to $167 in 2005, this study investigates the long-run relationship between remittances and financial services … development (FSD) and control variables including exchange rate (ERS), the size of migrant stock (MSK), the domestic per capita …

and remittances on the international development agenda. Remittances are perceived as one of the key benefits that … are known as diaspora remittances. Remittances do contribute to national development if harnessed into the national … towards infrastructure and industrial development. For Zimbabwe, there is a decline in diaspora remittances over the years …