Foreign remittance is a flourishing sector in the national economy of Bangladesh. During last decade the earning from … remittance has been grown tremendously. The contribution of foreign remittance in GDP in Bangladesh is increasing day by day …. Remittances from expatriate Bangladeshis reached US$10.98 billion during the 2009-2010 fiscal years, which is higher by 13 …

The purpose of this paper is to identify macroeconomic determinants of inflow of workers' remittances in the context of … Bangladesh. We used a balanced panel dataset of bilateral remittance flows from 10 major host countries (of Bangladeshi migrants …') to Bangladesh over the 1993 to 2005 period. We found that income differential between host and home country is positively …

Using a natural experiment of a rainfall-driven remittances, I provide experimental measures of how remittances affect … rural household's choice of cylinder gas (LPG) as a cooking fuel over other alternative fuels in southern Bangladesh …. Household choice of LPG and remittances are jointly related; therefore, I use the instrumental variable probit (IV …