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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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entrepreneurship or the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. Focusing on institutional heterogeneity, this paper … characterizes external finance (i.e. local family-based equity, remittances, bank credit, business angel finance and venture capital … and both the propensity for entrepreneurship and the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. …
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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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We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
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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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Ethnic diversity and provision of public goods have long been understood to share a negative relationship. While there has been a concerted effort to define and measure ethnic diversity around the world, we are interested in analyzing the possible differences in these measures when it comes to...
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This paper addresses the question how knowledge is used to benefit the economic development of Singapore and Malaysia. Both countries have followed strict science policies to establish knowledge governance regimes for a knowledge-based economy. On the basis of empirical studies in both countries...
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