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Development economists believe that migrant workers’ remittances are an important source of funds for long run growth …. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the growth effects of remittances and reached different conclusions. In many such … studies the growth of output is simply regressed on both remittances and the channels through which remittances affect growth …
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Many development economists believe that remittances by the migrant workers are an important source of long rum growth …. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the indirect and direct effects remittances on the growth rates of the recipient …. It is found that while the evidence supports the indirect effects of remittances, the direct growth effects of …
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An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …
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-foundations of the links between remittances finance and endogenous growth. Our theoretical set up helps to show how local financial … others new findings , we show that remittances foster economic growth in countries with less developed financial sector by …Remittances by migrants to their countries of origin constitute the largest source of external finance for developing …
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The present study tries to understand the trends and determinants of economic growth in Indian states. For this, it …, the study concludes that although both the variables are highly correlated with economic growth, it is the social sector … development that is having higher impact on the economic growth. In terms of the role of financial sector, the results show that …
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A standard argument of the advocates of unrestricted capital flows is that they boost a small country’s growth by … increasing the efficiency of the allocated capital. In this paper I examine the nexus between capital flows and real growth for …
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was due in large part to macroeconomic volatility that depressed private investment and growth. Using cross-sectional data … for 87 countries, we show that real per-capita growth over the period 1980–1994 was a function of productivity growth and … investments). When comparing Nigeria to high growth nations, we find that most of the growth differential can be attributed to …
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This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … develop several arguments to show that institutional quality modulates the intensity of FDI impact on growth. Using a … threshold of institutional quality that influence the FDI growth effect. These results have significant implications for policy …
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The purpose of preliminary is to present a broad agenda of theoretical and empirical modeling about the fundamental links between the quality of governance, financial development and economic development. The main theoretical predictions and evidence are of a large importance in terms of...
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
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