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International migration and household well-being : evidence from Uzbekistan
Seitz, William - 2019
As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is never far from the center of the national discussion in Uzbekistan. This paper summarizes the relationship between recent international migration trends and household well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058941
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Determinants of remittances : recent evidence using data on internal migrants in Vietnam
Niimi, Yoko (contributor); Pham, Thai-hung (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716686
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Macroinsurance for microenterprises : a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436578
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Financial risk management in agriculture : analyzing data from a new module of the Global Findex Database
Klapper, Leora; Singer, Dorothe; Ansar, Saniya; Hess, Jake - 2019
The ability to manage financial risk is especially important for people earning their living through agriculture. Many … inclusion-access to and use of formal financial services. This paper explores the topic of financial risk management in … risk and use financial services. The paper summarizes new data based on a nationally representative survey of about 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168011
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What is the impact of weather shocks on prices? : evidence from Ethiopia
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020
The impact of drought on household welfare is the cumulative effect of crop losses and price changes in a local economy that are triggered by these initial losses. This paper combines data on monthly grain prices and wages in 82 retail markets over 17 years with data on district-level weather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296926
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Rural roads, poverty, and resilience : evidence from Ethiopia
Nakamura, Shohei; Bundervoet, Tom; Nuru, Mohammed - 2019
This study analyzes the impacts of the recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic outcomes. The identification of the impacts relies on a difference-in-differences matching approach, taking advantage of the nationally representative household survey and the original road...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008324
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Trust and identity in a small, post-socialist, post-crisis society
Bjornskov, Christian; Bogetić, Željko; Hillman, Arye L.; … - 2014
The principal focus in the substantial literature on impediments to economic development has been on the inadequacies of policies and governance. However, successful economic development requires effectiveness of markets and incentives for investment, which in turn require trust. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345645
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Using remittance transaction data for timely estimation of the foreign worker population in Malaysia
Zainab Ali Ahmad; Simler, Kenneth; Yi, Soonhwa - 2020
Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level remittance transaction data collected from money transfer service providers to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297845
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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda
Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - 2019
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058959
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Self-employment and migration
Barbosa, Marcelo Ponte; Costa, Leandro Oliveira - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114376