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The Impact of Remittances on Investment and Poverty in Ghana
Adams, Richard H.; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - In: World Development 50 (2013) C, pp. 24-40
receipt of remittances greatly reduces likelihood of household poverty. These findings support the growing view that … remittances can reduce poverty and increase investment in developing countries. …This paper analyzes the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African or …
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Migration and Development Research is Moving Far Beyond Remittances
Clemens, Michael A.; Özden, Çağlar; Rapoport, Hillel - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 121-124
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural–urban migration and international remittances …
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Reprint of: Migration and Development Research is Moving Far Beyond Remittances
Clemens, Michael A.; Özden, Çağlar; Rapoport, Hillel - In: World Development 65 (2015) C, pp. 1-5
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural–urban migration and international remittances …
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Trade Liberalization and the Self-Employed in Mexico
Popli, Gurleen K. - In: World Development 38 (2010) 6, pp. 803-813
Summary This paper examines the trend in income inequality and poverty among the self-employed workers in Mexico during … 1984-2002, a period of rapid trade liberalization. In the decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among … the self-employed increased; as the economy stabilized inequality started to go down, but poverty kept increasing. To …
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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - In: World Development 40 (2012) 7, pp. 1435-1451
both the neighborhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. We also find that the HIV …
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The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?
Birdsall, Nancy; Lustig, Nora; Meyer, Christian J. - In: World Development 60 (2014) C, pp. 132-146
We identify a group of people in Latin America that are not poor but not middle class either—namely “strugglers” in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP). This group will account for about a third of the region’s population over the next...
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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - In: World Development 111 (2018), pp. 84-96
While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding...
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Do Natural Resource Revenues Hinder Financial Development? The Role of Political Institutions
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Hodler, Roland - In: World Development 57 (2014) C, pp. 101-113
We hypothesize that natural resource revenues may deteriorate contract enforcement if political institutions are weak. As poor contract enforcement leads to low financial development, resource revenues may hinder financial development in countries with poor political institutions, but not in...
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The Growth Effects of Property Rights: The Role of Finance
Bose, Niloy; Murshid, Antu Panini; Wurm, Martin A. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1784-1797
Using a variety of statistical approaches, we show that the relationship between property rights and growth is nonlinear; stronger enforcement of property rights raises growth up to a point before growth begins to decline. We provide a simple theoretical rationale for this conclusion using a...
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Political Institutions and Financial Development: An Empirical Study
Huang, Yongfu - In: World Development 38 (2010) 12, pp. 1667-1677
Summary This paper examines whether political institutional improvement promotes financial development, using a panel dataset of 90 developed and developing countries over 1960-99. The empirical evidence reveals a positive effect of institutional improvement on financial development at least in...
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