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We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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migrants’ remittances on financial inclusion in selected SSA countries. Pooled Mean Group (PMG) form of panel ARDL was employed … robustness checks. For the purpose of this empirical investigation, we collected data on Remittances, Account Ownership and … Income Per Capita for 27 SSA countries based on data availability. The conclusion is that remittances have no significant …
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This paper seeks to enrich the field of research on the topic of the impact of remittances on long-run economic growth …–2014, we studied the interaction between remittances and the level of economic development, as well as its impact on long …-run economic growth-because the impact of remittances could be influenced by the development level of the receiving countries. In …
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The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …
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part of the labour force from the emigration countries led to a significant flow of remittances. Being viewed as the main … gain of the loss of labour force, remittances are important at macroeconomic level to the extent in which they bring in the … of a country according to the way in which remittances received are used by emigrants. This study analyses the impact …
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Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances … labor market and encouraging uncontrolled individual relocation. This paper also reveals that although remittances have …
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The literature has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship of remittances with economic growth and social welfare …, neglecting more complex aspects where remittances can have relevant implications. To contribute to the literature, the objective … of this research is to examine the dynamic relationship between remittances, capital formation, structural transformation …
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In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers' remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American … countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances … have become an important source of income for many developing countries and, as a global aggregate, workers' remittances …
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The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …
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In this paper, I study the effect of remittances on economic growth of the Fiji Islands. I provide empirical evidences … based on data for the period 1979-2007 that remittances have a positive and significant impact on growth of Fiji's economy …. The investigation also indicates the need to encourage financial sector development and consider furthering remittances …
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