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This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan … significant impact on aggregate poverty and income inequality in Pakistan in short-run. In long run, trade liberalization has some … strong effects on poverty and inequality. Nevertheless, other control variables - foreign remittances and gross capital …
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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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volatility is increased by trade openness and inflation, but remittances have a mixed effect. In order to benefit from financial …
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and financial development. Therefore, regulating and redirecting remittances toward environmental sustainability will …
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enhances human capital development in Pakistan. Similarly, the inflow of remittances increases human capital development.On the …The present paper studies the effects of financial development on the human capital development of Pakistan. An annual … present paper recommend some useful insights for the policymakers of Pakistan. …
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regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not … significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 … per- cent, with different effects across regions for extreme poverty. Foreign transfers, especially foreign pensions, have …
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This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households … that migrants’ remittances can improve living standards among Moroccan households and affect negatively the incidence of …
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impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates …Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones … in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to …
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Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong positive impact …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The … calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …
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This paper investigates the distributional consequences of international remittances using a panel data set from sixty … five developing economies from 1970 to 2015. It focuses on complementarity between financial development and remittances in … determining the inequality-impact of remittances using instrumental variables techniques of panel data for empirical analysis. The …
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