This paper reviews the empirical literature on workers' remittances. Based on the empirical
evidence, we are able to assess the facts and myths about the determinants and …

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics,
macroeconomic conditions, and adverse shocks in recipient economies. We exploit a novel …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and
reducing poverty in Asian countries using data for more than 20 countries in the region for …

Despite welfare and poverty-reducing benefits for recipient households, remittance inflows
have been shown to entail macroeconomic challenges; producing Dutch Disease-type …

Remittances are under the radar of the research community. Abundant empirical literature is
available addressing different questions regarding these foreign inflows. Particularly, the …

In this paper, we study the macroeconomic determinants of remittance flows. We place
particular attention to fluctuations in remittance flows over the international business cycles …

The effect of workers' remittance outflows on macroeconomic variables of host countries is a
controversial issue. The purpose of this paper is to study lead/lag interactions between …

What started as a financial crisis in 2008–2009 quickly became a crisis of trade for many
emerging economies. Using South Africa as a case study, this paper examines the Granger …

Se construye una matriz de contabilidad social para la economıa mexicana al ano 2004.
Además de su alto nivel de desagregación, la principal cualidad de esta matriz es que la …

Empirical results yield mixed evidence of the effect of remittances on economic growth in
countries of origin. This note assesses the potential impact of remittance instability on total …