Impacto de las remesas en la economía ecuatoriana periodo 2015-2020.

Abstract

Remittances have presented positive flows in the last five years, they are one of the main components that constitutes personal transfers from Ecuadorians who work abroad. The economic recovery in the country is attributed to the sustained contribution of remittances that entered since 2015, which has driven the constant growth of the economy in recent years. This contribution has allowed household consumption to reactivate and purchases of goods and services have increased. During the third quarter of 2020, there was a historical peak in income from these transfers, representing around 3% of GDP. The main objective of this study was to establish the relationship between remittances and economic growth in the Ecuadorian economy, during the period 2015 to 2020. It was developed under the methodological guidelines of a descriptive research with a quantitative approach to verify the contribution through research theoretical and statistical, to verify if, through the application of a least square’s method, remittances have a favorable impact on the economic growth of the country.