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Remittance is called the life blood of Bangladesh economy. In Bangladesh it contributes much in reducing poverty. In a study of Institute of Microfinance led by Professor S.R. Osmani, we have seen that 4 % poverty of Bangladesh solely reduced by foreign remittance. Microcredit is another...
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of the four activities – ‘study only’, ‘study and work’, ‘neither work nor study’ and ‘work only’. The results from the multinomial logit model...
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Purpose – The objective of this paper is to understand better the determinants of child labour and schooling in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh and considers the children aged 5-17 years living in rural households in...
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For countries assessing whether to implement a cash transfer program, an ex-ante evaluation is vital to assess its potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among Sri Lankan children. We find that cash transfer...
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Using the Cambodia Socioeconomic Survey 2004 and employing micro-static simulation techniques, we measure the potential impacts of cash transfer programs for children to identify targeted groups that will have the most effect on poverty and school attendance. We conclude that the largest impacts...
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Central America's economic performance in recent years has benefited from improved macroeconomic management, a favorable external environment, as well as rising investor confidence since the region has pursued greater access to global markets, particularly with the signing of DR-CAFTA in 2004....
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covariates and is consistent with a conceptual framework in which migrants have preferences over how recipients spend remittances … sending remittances. We explore the mechanisms underlying the main effect and find that migrants who more recently sent a …
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effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the proportional hazard model is that the effect of the covariates is … characteristics, parental schooling, household income and the presence of remittances. In the model, household incomes are considered … separately from remittances in order to identify whether income from remittances have the same effect as other types of household …
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The Moroccan economy relies heavily on remittances from abroad to the extent they are far more significant sources of … cycles of major hosting European countries on Moroccan workers’ remittances using impulse response functions of a VAR … modeling approach. Our findings include, first: the remittances to Morocco and major European countries’ GDP are positively …
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