International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and
their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less …

The main goal of this paper is to assess the effect of remittances on economic growth and
poverty reduction amongst the post-Soviet states, compared with other external sources of …

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 …

How does a decline in oil prices and its impacts on growth affect remittance outflows from
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries? This paper carries out an empirical analysis …

Structural transformation and urbanization have increased greatly in develo** countries
over the last few decades. Migrant remittances—private external financial flows—have also …

Remittance flows into low-income and fragile states represent a lifeline that supports
households as well as provides much-needed tax revenue. As of 2018, remittance flows to …

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

Remittances are an important source of external financing in low‐and middle‐income
countries. This paper uses the gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and …

Remittances have become an increasingly important source of external financing for the low-
income countries of Central Asia. The impact of Foreign remittances upon poverty alleviation …

This paper investigates the impacts of money transfers on tax revenue in the post-socialist
countries. I evaluate the effects of these money transfers on direct, indirect, and total tax …