The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant … as education play a role in how migrant households climb up the income ladder. …

approfondissement.There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … that characterize Haitian society. Although expectations about macroeconomic impacts of remittances on beneficiaries …

While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory — arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

in the Pacific island countries in maximizing the benefits of migration and remittances on their economic development. We … remittances by switching to the lowest-cost providers. We also find that exposure to new information thanks to migration … experiences, frequent remittances, and residential islands are the key household characteristics to voluntarily shift from cash …

. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our … their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …

-run effects of remittances, aid and financial deepening on growth in Guyana using annual data for the period 1982-2010. The … results show that remittances have a positive and significant effect both in the short and the long run. Aid has a negative … capital stock, aid and financial deepening cause remittances inflow in Guyana …