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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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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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This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
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This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in developing countries on a large … panel of developing countries. The four main results are the following: Firstly, remittances significantly reduce household … consumption instability. Secondly, the insurance role played by remittances is highlighted: remittances dampen the effect of …
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This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects … account the endogeneity of remittances, migration and financial development, we show that remittances reduce significantly the …
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empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw … of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effect is substantially smaller than the one that we find focusing …
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large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …
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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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