This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

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 …

postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …

The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development …. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …'s financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis …

a huge chunk of remittance back to Nigeria. The study focuses on what implications remittances may have for unemployment … inflow of remittances when curbing unemployment. The study further recommends that there is the need to deliberately … remittances. …

This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …

Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health … literature by empirically investigating the WHO hypothetical determinants of health-worker migration in the context of …

-worker migration. Findings provide a broad range of tools for the fight against health-worker brain-drain. As a policy implication …

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 …

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 …