Remittances & Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries?

Insight · 28 March 2012

Remittances & Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries?

The paper finds that remittances have a positive impact on growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), but not in other countries. The result for the Pacific is striking suggesting that without remittances these countries would have recorded an average growth rate...