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Labour and migration in rural Vietnam
Narciso, Gaia - 2015
that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342953
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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political
Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010
International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697427
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How unpopular policies are made : examples from South Africa, Singapore, and Bangladesh
Palmary, Ingrid; De Gruchy, Thea; Ashraf, Ali; Koh Chiu Yee - 2018
In this paper we consider four factors that shaped the development of migration policy intended to protect the rights of vulnerable migrant women. They are: the role players in the policy change process, the debates that shaped the policy change, the role that research played and the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808892
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Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind
Ng, James - 2018
remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country's economy. Recently, due in no small part to the availability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789026
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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? : impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda
Calderone, Margherita - 2017
This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635702
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Winning or buying hearts and minds? : cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia - 2019
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129354
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …
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Social policies or private solidarity? : the equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo Flores, Carlos Gerardo; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
of migration and remittances (that is, a ‘private safety net’ built around solidarity within families) rather than the … distributive effect of public social expenditure or other public policies. -- El Salvador ; remittances ; migration ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487028
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
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The impact of remittances on household food security : a micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia
Abadi, Nigussie; Techane, Ataklti; Girmay Tesfay; … - 2018
While the volume of remittances to developing countries has been growing significantly over the years, the impact of … remittances on food security has not received much attention. To bridge the gap this paper has examined the impact of remittances … ATT effect of remittances on Food Consumption Score (FCS) between treated and control households. These findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809009