their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. 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 …

International remittances by immigrants to their home countries is key in the funding development in migrant …-enhancing effect of remittances. Thus, the study helps explain the development dilemma of remittance inflows and financial inclusion in …

This article elaborates on the role of personal remittances and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as the forms of … international private aid most compatible with sustainable economic growth and development. We argue that remittances and FDIs are …, market complexity, and the institutional prospects in poor nations. Globalization has led to increased flows of remittances …

It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on remittances, payments, and development. We describe many of … why these questions dominate, the most important of which is that researchers tend to view remittances as states do (as …

remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that … remittances play a key role in terms of ex ante risk preparedness for those countries that experienced more disruptive events in …, remittances seem to substitute for less efficient financial systems both in terms of ex post response to disasters and in terms of …

-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been accounted for. It focuses on import prices to reflect the vulnerability … and income per capita. On the other hand, while remittances seem to dampen the adverse effect of import food price shocks …

remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … square (2SLS) regression analysis, this study establishes that, in general, international remittances per gross domestic … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar …

correlation is not observable for remittances, an alternative form of foreign-exchange inflows where the capital flight motivation …

remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and … (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of remittances on economic volatilities. Results suggest that while (i …) large remittances can be stabilizing on average, (ii) high remittance concentration from source countries can aggravate …

The paper explores the impact of workers' remittances on the level of export diversification. The hypothesis is that … significant inflow of remittances causes overvaluation of real exchange rate, which in turn deteriorates diversity of export. The …–2016 period and System GMM methodology. The evidence suggests that indeed large inflow of remittances is associated with less …