Remittances and Banking Sector Breadth and Depth: Evidence from Mexico

Despite the importance of remittances to developing countries, their impact on banking sector breadth and depth in recipient countries has been largely unexplored. We examine this topic using municipality-level data on the fraction of households receiving remittances and on measures of banking bread...

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Main Authors: Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Cordova, Ernesto Lopez, Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad, Woodruff, Christopher
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5633