-specific covariates in explaining remittances. We find that remittance flows are robustly and strongly impacted by size effects (i ….e., number of migrants in the host country and population at home), transaction costs, common social, political, and cultural …

country-specific covariates in explaining remittances. Robustly across alternative estimation techniques and specifications …This paper investigates the macroeconomic determinants of global bilateral remittances flows. Using data covering 216 … World countries over the 2010-2017 period, we employ a gravity-model approach to explore the role payed by dyadic and …

This article examines the impact of UN‐imposed sanctions on the stability of the Eritrean regime, using diaspora … characterized by long-distance nationalism, and examines the history and structure of the Eritrean diaspora as well as its … transformation since the political crisis of 2001. The paper argues that the government and its supporters among the diaspora, as …

this "diaspora capital". …