Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204950 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/19/009
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive simultaneity-robust estimation techniques, namely: (i) Instrumental Fixed Effects (FE) to control for the unobserved heterogeneity; (ii) Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) to control for persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances can drive industrialisation through the financial development mechanism. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Africa
Diaspora
Financial development
Industrialisation
Remittances
JEL: 
F24
F43
G20
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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