Remittances and Financial Inclusion : Evidence from El Salvador

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. Using household-level survey data for El Salvador, we examine whether remittances affect households’ use of savings and credit instruments from formal financial institutions. We find that although remittances have a positive i...

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Main Authors: Anzoategui, Diego, Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Martínez Pería, María Soledad
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16378