This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and
remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South. International …

Based on a sample of 76 develo** countries over 1990–2019, we assess the effect of
adopting mobile money on consumption volatility using entropy balancing. We reveal that …

This study investigates the impacts of workers' remittances on human capital and labor
supply by using data for 122 develo** countries from 1990 to 2015. This topic has not …

Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest
sources of financial flows to develo** countries, often dwarfing other widely-studied …

This study investigates the impacts of workers' remittances on poverty and inequality by
using data for 103 develo** countries from 1990 to 2014. The main difficulty in assessing …

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in a
large panel of develo** countries. There are four main results. First, remittances …

This paper provides an early assessment of the dynamics and drivers of remittances during
the COVID-19 pandemic, using a newly compiled monthly remittance dataset for a sample of …

This paper investigates the determinants and the macroeconomic role of remittances in sub-
Saharan Africa. It assembles the most comprehensive data set available so far on …

This study uncovers the causal relationship between political instability (constructed using
different indicators) and migrants' remittances on a panel of 22 countries from sub-Saharan …

Incorporating migrant remittances among other variables into a growth model, and
employing panel data over the 1970–2008 period, this study investigates the impact of …