grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques …. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real … and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in the …

an important source of revenue. It also analyzes recent developments and the outlook for remittances to Kiribati, which …

worker remittances. It addresses the many common policy challenges facing Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador …

changing structure of Cape Verde’s balance-of-payments financing calls for a closer look at the volatility of remittances and … their role as an absorber of economic shocks. The paper finds that compared with other external inflows, remittances … seems to be gradually fading, and remittances are becoming increasingly procyclical …

interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

resource wealth. In addition to traditional variables, we include an institutional variable and remittances among the … regressors. We find that (i) both institutions and remittances have a positive and significant impact on market capitalization …

The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …