Abstract:The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic implication in providing insurance against domestic output shocks in the recipient economies -a phenomenon known in literature as risk sharing. Using a large sample of 86 developing countries for the period 1990-2010, we establish that remittance inflows serve as an important channel through which risk sharing takes place in the developing world. Although the extent of risk sharing on average stands… Show more
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