The authors acknowledge and thank the Asian Development Bank for permission to use their data set for the household-level analysis. We also thank Eliana Jimenez, Elizabeth Kenny and Xinran Liu for their invaluable assistance in preparing this paper, and the valuable comments on earlier drafts from Sambit Battacharyya, Paul Collier, Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Simon Quinn and Rick van der Ploeg, Department of Economics, Oxford, as well as participants at the CSAE 2011 Conference, Oxford, and the Migration, Economic Change, Social Challenge Conference, UCL, London, 2011 and University of Groningen, School of Economics Seminar, March 2011. We also thank the editors and referees for their useful comments and suggestions.
Migrants’ Remittances and Financial Development: Macro- and Micro-Level Evidence of a Perverse Relationship

Article first published online: 16 JAN 2013
DOI: 10.1111/twec.12016
© 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Brown, R. P. C., Carmignani, F. and Fayad, G. (2013), Migrants’ Remittances and Financial Development: Macro- and Micro-Level Evidence of a Perverse Relationship. World Economy, 36: 636–660. doi: 10.1111/twec.12016
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