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poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …
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in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …
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This note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If … those who send it come from poorer households (semi-skilled and unskilled workers), its impact on poverty would be greater …. Second, that the manner in which remittances are sent, i.e. through legal or illegal channels, also makes a difference in …
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international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … earnings under the assumptions of absence of migration and remittances before comparing it to the household income when the …
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In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the … vulnerability of non-poor households are significantly dropped due to remittances. Our findings also suggest that remittance inflows …
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Remittances by migrants to their countries of origin constitute the largest source of external finance for developing …-foundations of the links between remittances finance and endogenous growth. Our theoretical set up helps to show how local financial … system development and the quality of institutions influence a country’s capacity to take advantage of remittances. Among …
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Remittances are an important source of external financing for a country like Morocco. We show in this paper the … properties of these financial flows. Indeed, we show that remittances are more stable than foreign direct investment. They are …
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Present study is focused to examine the effects of foreign capital flows on domestic investment in Pakistan economy for … investment and foreign capital flow variables. Unidirectional causality running from external debt stock, remittances and …
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An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …
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evidence on the effect of remittances on poverty in an unbalanced panel of 40 high remittances economies. The endogeneity issue …, driven by the possibility that remittances and poverty may have bidirectional causality, is tackled by a system estimation … poverty. On the other hand, remittances decline with the wake of widespread poverty. There is consistent evidence that …
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