Overseas remittances are a vital source of income for many households in developing economies, yet little is known about the characteristics of the sender households. We begin by examining what motivates households to send money to other households living abroad. We then model the remittance behaviour of a diverse set of ethnic minority groups living in England and Wales using survey data. Our ...

This analysis considers international migration remittances and their impact on development in migrant-sending areas. The new economics of labor migration (NELM) posit that remittances lessen production and market constraints faced by households in poor developing countries. The article states that remittances may be a positive factor in economic development, which should be nurtured by econo...

Purpose- It has been commonly observed that remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries surpassed overseas development assistance. is also often noted the sums remitted through formal channels represent only a fraction of total remittances: large though unknown amount funds finds its way families in migrants’ areas origin informal channels. In Nigeria for instance, there high prevalenc...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper investigates the causality between remittances and financial sector development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. To this end, we employ the panel Granger causality testing approach that is based on Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) multivariate systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Using annual data over the 1980–2010...

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