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The Effect of Remittances on Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence
Ebeke, Christian Hubert - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 351-364
This paper examines the relationship between migrants remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflow of remittances helps to offset the effects … (of which 31 are African) observed in the year 2000 and after taking into account the endogeneity of remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835779
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The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor
Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011
This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects … account the endogeneity of remittances, migration and financial development, we show that remittances reduce significantly the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794147
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The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor
EBEKE, Christian - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2009
This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects … account the endogeneity of remittances, migration and financial development, we show that remittances reduce significantly the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562496
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008), pp. 1-17
This lecture revisits the evidence on the incidence and severity of different varieties of financial crises within the context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market crises from the perspective of the recent balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082978
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This lecture revisits the evidence on the incidence and severity of different varieties of financial crises within the context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market crises from the perspective of the recent balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083346
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Financial Development, International Trade and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
Shaheen, Safana; Awan, Masood Sarwar; Waqas, Muhammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study utilizes the Autoregressive-distributed lag (ARDL) approach for cointegration and Granger causality test, to explore the long run equilibrium relationship and the possible direction of causality between international trade, financial development and economic growth for the Pakistan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251540
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Impact of Financial Development on Exchange Rate Volatility and Long-Run Growth Relationship of Bangladesh
Bristy, Humyra Jabeen - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 4 (2014) 2, pp. 258-263
Empirical results show that exchange rate volatility has a negative impact on the economic growth of Bangladesh. In contrast, this paper endeavors to analyze whether level of financial development of Bangladesh has any impact on the exchange rate volatility and growth relationship. To test this,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764483
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Local financial development and growth
Kendall, Jake - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 5, pp. 1548-1562
Using unique, district-level, economic growth data, I investigate the connection between banking sector development, human capital, and economic growth in Indian districts. Disaggregate data helps avoid many of the omitted variable problems that plague similar cross-country studies. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574833
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Financial Development and the Sensitivity of Stock Markets to External Influences
Dellas, Harris; Hess, Martin K. - Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee - 2000
We investigate how the relative contribution of external factors to stock price movements varies with the degree of financial development. We find that financial development makes stock markets more susceptible to external influences (both financial and macroeconomic). Interestingly, this effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005465146
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Do Remittances Facilitate a Sustainable Current Account?
Hassan, Gazi M.; Holmes, Mark J. - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2014
We examine how workers’ remittances impact on the current account. In doing so, we focus on how remittances affect the … sustainability rather than size of current account balances. We find that the presence of remittances make it more likely that … exports and imports are cointegrated thereby lending support to weak sustainability where increased remittances are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790581