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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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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of inward international remittances on human-centered development in 15 … remittances from abroad. The empirical model and methodology used in this paper are relevant and, hence, can be applied in related …
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During the last three decades, developing countries have made enormous strides in opening up their protected domestic markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have also instituted a range of policies to encourage...
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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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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This study investigates the effect of workers’ remittances on economic growth of five South Asian countries namely … confirm that there exist significant positive long run relationship between remittances and economic growth in India …, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal while, significant negative relationship exist between remittances and economic growth in …
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