The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between remittances, financial sector development, and … are bound together in the long-run. The results also showed that remittances have a negative and significant effect on … of complementarity between remittances and financial sector development in influencing economic growth. In addition …

This research assesses the relevance of enhancing remittances on value added across economic sectors in sub … to the agricultural sector are apparent. Second, enhancing remittances engenders a positive net effect on added value to … unfavourable net incidence of remittances to the service sector is associated with a positive marginal or conditional effect, the …

In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a catalyst for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …

In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on investment. Workers’ remittances to developing countries have grown to … countries and how they interact with remittances is stressed. Data on remittance flow to 79 developing countries during 1995 …-2005 is used. Dynamic panel data approach is applied for this purpose. The results reveal that remittances, high quality …

Workers' Remittances flow is considered a stable source of financial flows to many developing countries. However …, researchers differ on the question of whether remittances also constitute a vital source of development finance to recipient … to some selected Sub-Saharan African countries. The hypothesized link between workers' remittances and private investment …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

and significant relation between remittances and measures of development of the financial sector that is both larger than … nations, this paper adds to our understanding of the multiple impacts of the mass migration phenomenon on the economies of …

This paper addresses the relationship between remittances and home country investment in developing countries. It … impact of remittances on home country investment. The key contribution of the paper is to show that different transaction … remittance flows through the loanable funds market, yields several intuitive results. First, the marginal impacts of remittances …