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Diaspora, remittances, and poverty RP's regions

Pernia, Ernesto M. (contributor) - 2006

development in the Philippines. It first revisits the causes and consequences of international migration, drawing on the more …-sending countries. It proceeds to describe the patterns of labor migration and remittances by region in the Philippines, and then …

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Overseas employment, savings rate and income distribution : the Philippines case

Tan, Edita A. - 1991

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The macroeconomic impact of remittances in the Philippines

Paderanga, Cayetano W. - 2009

Over the past twenty- five years, policy changes in the Philippines and global trends leading to market and financial … increasing importance of overseas remittances to the Philippines. This paper looks at the macroeconomic and sectoral impact of …

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Remittances and household behavior in the Philippines

Ang, Alvin P.; Sugiyarto, Guntur; Jha, Shikha - 2010

As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … to the Philippines do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

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Migration remittances, poverty and inequality : the Philippines

Pernia, Ernesto M. (contributor) - 2008

The paper looks into the effects of international migration and remittances on household incomes and well-being, poverty reduction, human capital investment, saving, and regional development in the home country. Remittances appear to raise average incomes for all income groups but more so for...

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The impact of international labor migration anf OFW remittances on poverty in the Philippines

Capistrano, Loradel O. (contributor); … - 2007

The implications of labor migration and remittances on poverty are becoming a global issue. The Philippines is … and how they contribute to poverty reduction. However, the studies particularly done for the Philippines are quite scarce … to analyze the sole effect of migration on poverty in the Philippines and to utilize three measures of poverty to …

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Remittances and household welfare : a case study of Pakistan

Ahmed, Vaqar - 2010

This paper examines the impact of remittances on economy and household welfare in Pakistan by using a general equilibrium framework and microeconometric analysis. The first approach is to highlight the macroeconomic and sectoral effects of a reduction in remittances, while the second is to show...

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The case of the missing remittances in the FIES : could it be causing us to mismeasure welfare changes?

Ducanes, Geoffrey - 2010

This paper highlights the increasing underreporting of remittances by the FIES compared to BSP and World Bank figures, advances possible reasons why such underreporting is occurring, and examines its implications for welfare measurement in the country at points in time and across time. Using...

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The financial crisis, oil price hike, the Arab spring and foreign demand for Filipino workers

Tan, Edita A. - 2012

The paper inquires into the impact of contemporary major world events - the recession in the United States and Western Europe, the oil price hike, and the Arab Spring - on the flow of overseas Filipino workers or OFWs and their remittances. The paper finds that the recession in the West has not...

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Overseas Filipinos' remittance behavior

Tan, Edita A. (contributor) - 2006

An estimated 9 million Filipinos, about 10% of the population, now reside abroad as permanent immigrants in advanced economies and as temporary migrant workers. The permanent immigrants who are mostly in the US, Australia and Canada comprise about 45% of the total. The migrant workers are...

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