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The study explored the impact of remittances on poverty in selected emerging markets. On the theoretical front, the … optimistic view argued that remittances inflow into the labour exporting country reduces poverty whereas the pessimistic view … fixed effects approach produced results which supported the remittances led poverty reduction (optimistic) hypothesis …
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explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and …The study investigates the impact of human capital development on poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries …
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The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …
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In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …
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This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …
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This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …
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How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new...
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the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
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The paper explored (1) the impact of remittances on financial development and (2) whether the interaction between … remittances and human capital development had an influence on financial development in transitional economies using the dynamic … GMM approach, with data ranging from 1996 to 2014. Remittances were found to have had a non-significant positive influence …
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This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …
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