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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation using a panel of 49 African … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …
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This study examines the impact of remittances and information and communication technology (ICT) on pension at the … remittances, ICT and pension income coverage. First, we find a convex relation between remittances and pension income coverage … certain point, so too does pension income coverage. This inflection point, where the effect of remittances turns from negative …
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This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …
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Purpose – This study examines how linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) and remittances … remittances can be changed from positive to negative, notably: (i) for the number of start-up procedures, an internet level of 9 … our knowledge, this is the first study to assess linkages between ICT, remittances and doing business in Sub …
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This research assesses the relevance of enhancing remittances on value added across economic sectors in sub … to the agricultural sector are apparent. Second, enhancing remittances engenders a positive net effect on added value to … unfavourable net incidence of remittances to the service sector is associated with a positive marginal or conditional effect, the …
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This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in … are positive marginal effects from the interaction between remittances and ICT in the FE regressions whereas there are … negative marginal impacts from the interaction between remittances and ICT; (ii) Interactions between remittances and mobile …
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This study examines the impact of remittances and information and communication technology (ICT) on pension at the … remittances, ICT and pension income coverage. First, we find a convex relation between remittances and pension income coverage … certain point, so too does pension income coverage. This inflection point, where the effect of remittances turns from negative …
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