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While remittances are well-studied economically, their demographic impact on fertility remains neglected. This paper examines how global remittance flows shape fertility dynamics and contribute to the economic and development dimension of demographic globalization. We conduct a bibliometric and co-keyword analysis of 32 peer-reviewed studies covering publications up to 2025 indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, mapping thematic clusters, country participation and co-citation networks. Five clusters are id...

Today, the inflow of foreign remittances is an important development factor associated with migration processes. At the same time, also a factor that has proven to be more resistant to global economic adversities than the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) or the inflow of overseas development aid (ODA). Foreign remittances in recent years have exceeded global amounts of FDI and become the prevalent basis of external financing in low- and middle-income countries. What is interesting to point out is that Cro...