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 migration, through enrichment of some Tunisian 
workers abroad, allows for investment in more pro-
ductive activities in their home country. Tests con-
ducted by Leon-Ledesma and Piracha for 11 coun-
tries of Central and Eastern Europe and Drinkwater 
et al. on 20 developing countries show that remit-
tances contribute significantly to increasing the level 
of investment in migrants’ home countries.
As the literature review shows, there is an abun-
dance of remittance-relevant research taking place in 
developing and low-income countries. However, the 
locus mainly revolves around the following research 
areas:
•  Causal effects of remittances on economic 
development and poverty reduction (and the 
opposite);
•  Remittances general trends, inflows, chan-
nels, migrants characteristics, banking sec-
tor;
•  Remittances and associated household con-
sumption patterns/productive use;
•  Remittances and their impact on savings, in-
vestments, and capital formation.
Although practically all remittance-receiving coun-
tries were extensively studied by scholars investigat-
ing how migrants and their respective families make 
use of remittances, the individual focus on the items 
in the consumption list was largely overlooked. In