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for putting in place and agreed set of rules and policies to ensure better protection for the more vulnerable migrants. …
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There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … that characterize Haitian society. Although expectations about macroeconomic impacts of remittances on beneficiaries …
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concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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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 …We conduct a remittance field experiment among Salvadoran migrants in the metro DC area. Migrants need to decide …
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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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-gyz labor migrant. Remittances shape the present state of the Kyrgyz economy;the quality of human capital, and its future …
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remittances and economic growth have significant positive relationship with the stock market capitalization in long run as well as …, unidirectional causal relationship is found in between workers’ remittances and stock market capitalization. It is suggested that in …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of remittances on Latin America`s economic growth thorough 1976 … conclusion is that remittances had a negative and significant effect on the region, although with low magnitude. The countries … most negatively affected by remittances were Mexico, Haiti, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, while Panama, the country that led …
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