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remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …
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This paper investigates the impact of international migration on technical efficiency, resource allocation and income from agricultural production of family farming in Albania. The results suggest that migration is used by rural households as a pathway out of agriculture: migration is negatively...
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in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables …
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Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the … findings provide strong support for the notion that remittances promote financial development in developing countries. …
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Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …
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borrowing or remittances, significantly impact saving rates. The macroeconomic and microeconomic analyses of the determinants of … remittances. …
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Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable …
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This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world and the evolution of economic thought on development policy. The 20th century was broadly characterized by divergence between high-income countries and the developing world, with...
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Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women have not been economically active or productive; it is...
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This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...
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