Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa /

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupta, Sanjeev
Other Authors: Pattillo, Catherine, Wagh, Smita
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/038
Online Access:Full text available on IMF