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flows, namely: development assistance, foreign investment and remittances. Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit, Fixed effects … threshold and (iii) 25 (% of GDP) is the critical mass of remittances. At the established critical masses or thresholds …
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findings from both estimation techniques reveal that remittances and FDI increase inclusive development whereas foreign aid has …, remittances are negatively associated with: (i) Middle income countries compared to Low income countries where the effect is not …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …
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African nations have in time, passed over-relied on remittances inflow to augment domestic finances needed for growth …. Despite the volume and magnitude of remittances that have to serve as an alternative source of investment financing, African … remains mostly underdeveloped. The altruistic motives of sending remittances to Africa are likely to fade with time. In this …
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Despite the magnitude of remittances as an alternative source of investment financing in Africa, the financial sector … examine the structural linkages between remittances and financial sector development in Africa. Panel data on indices of … remittances was regressed on indices of financial sector development in fifty-three (53) African countries from 1986 through 2017 …
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Purpose - This study examines how linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) and remittances … remittances can be changed from positive to negative, notably: (i) for the number of start-up procedures, an internet level of 9 … our knowledge, this is the first study to assess linkages between ICT, remittances and doing business in Sub …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998019
development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that … remittances are not statistically significant in promoting inclusive growth in Africa. Notably, across the economic growth and … income inequality dimensions of inclusive growth, we find that although remittances are ineffective in boosting the former …
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Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study. The focus is on 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984 to 2008. The generalised method of moment is employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid...
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This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
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