This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent less at the margin on one important investment good -- housing -- compared with …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent less at the margin on one important investment good -- housing -- compared with …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic … growth and creating long-term human and capital investment. The results indicate that remittances negatively influence the … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We … Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) of 2012. We find that remittances have a positive impact on household savings and … tend to use remittances productively, with receiving households increasing their investments in human and physical capital …