Remittances are an important source of external financing in Pakistan, amounting to around 10% of gross domestic … product in 2021. As such, an appropriate understanding of the key macroeconomic drivers of remittances has important policy … implications. Combining a database of bilateral remittances between Pakistan and its main remittance-sending countries with monthly …

The literature has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship of remittances with economic growth and social welfare …, neglecting more complex aspects where remittances can have relevant implications. To contribute to the literature, the objective … of this research is to examine the dynamic relationship between remittances, capital formation, structural transformation …

In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers' remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American … countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances … have become an important source of income for many developing countries and, as a global aggregate, workers' remittances …

to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …

The diagnosis: Dutch disease caused by international remittances afflicts the middle income countries but not the upper …

The diagnosis: Dutch disease caused by international remittances afflicts the middle income countries but not the upper …

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that the effect of remittances on income inequality depends on who migrates … abroad. To our knowledge, no macroeconomic study examining the effect of remittances on inequality has considered the … factoring in the endogeneity of remittances, this paper provides evidence of some characteristics of countries in which …

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …