Workers’ remittance inflows have historically been a driving force of the Sri Lankan economy. However, the inflow of workers’ remittances contracted significantly in 2021 reflecting the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased tendency to remit money through informal channels. At the same time, the external sector continues to show the significant vulnerabilities making numerous challenges for the economy. In this context, promoting workers’ remittance inflows to the country is imperative to overcome the heightened external shocks. Also, the importance of workers’ remittances as a steady source of foreign exchange in Sri Lanka has grown among the researchers and the policy makers. In this backdrop, this study aims to examine the macroeconomic determinants of inflow of workers’ remittances in the context of Sri Lanka. The Johansen Cointegration Technique and the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) specified under Vector Auto Regression (VAR) framework were used to estimate the model. The annual data on related macroeconomic variables for the period 1986-2019 were used to conduct the analysis. The results of the study found that the depreciation of domestic currency appeared to be positively correlated with the inflows of workers’ remittance in both long run and short run in Sri Lanka. Moreover, annual departures for migration, domestic deposit rate and world oil prices showed a positive influence on the inflow of workers’ remittances in the long run. The overall outcomes of the study suggest that altruistic and investment motives are considered to be the driving forces for remitting money to Sri Lanka.
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Remittance, Migration, Exchange Rate, Vector Error Correction, Sri Lanka
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