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Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines
Burgess, Robert; Haksar, V. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604780
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Remittances, Trade Liberalisation, and Poverty in Pakistan: The Role of Excluded Variables in Poverty Change Analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - In: The Pakistan Development Review 45 (2006) 3, pp. 383-415
poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796850
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Remittances, Trade Liberalisation, and Poverty in Pakistan: The Role of Excluded Variables in Poverty Change Analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2006
-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reducation in the absesnce of a decline in remittances … explaining the increase in poverty in pakistan. …This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberlisation and a decline in remittances from abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796909
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The Impact of Remittances on Economic Insecurity
Sharma, Krishnan - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2009
This paper illustrates that cross-country generalizations about the impact of remittances on economic security are …, immigration policies and conditions in the host country, and the size and concentrations of the remittances. The policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040685
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Estimating the Net Effects of Migration and Remittances on Poverty and Inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga
Brown, Richard P.C.; Jimenez, Eliana - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances on poverty alleviation and income distribution are found to be stronger when the more rigorous, counterfactual income …We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031796
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Inequality, Leverage and Crises
Ranciere, Romain; Kumhof, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The paper studies how high leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2008 both exhibited a large increase in the income share of the rich, a large increase in leverage for the remainder, and an eventual financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777032
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Education is good for the poor: a note on Dollar and Kraay.
Gundlach, Erich; Navarro de Pablo, José; Weisert, Natascha - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2004
income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520188
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Remittances for Economic Development: the Investment Perspective
Le, Thanh - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2011
Based on the economic theory of the family, this paper constructs a model of remittances where the migrant, besides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751504
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Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - HAL - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924980
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Remittances and the prevalence of working poor.
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003414