Remittances and Dutch Disease: A Meta-Analysis

Remittance flows are an important source of foreign exchange for various developing countries around the world. Given their growing importance in the last decade, their role in inducing Dutch disease symptoms in the developing countries has been extensively studied. However, the results of the analyses so far have been mixed. In this study, we conduct a meta-analysis of existing literature to estimate the over all effect of remittances on receiving countries’ real effective exchange rate (REER). We run fixed and random effect meta-analysis on studies taken from EconLit, Google Scholar and vari... Mehr ...