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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 … proponents said that remittances dependence syndrome retards both economic growth and income per capita. Separately, using two …
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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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The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …
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Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …
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Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …
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remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that … remittances play a key role in terms of ex ante risk preparedness for those countries that experienced more disruptive events in …, remittances seem to substitute for less efficient financial systems both in terms of ex post response to disasters and in terms of …
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, and economic development and whether inward remittances may help to construct an inclusive financial system. Using both … endogeneity-robust generalized method of moments and a structural equation model, our results show that remittances and financial … remittances and improve financial inclusion status are of great importance and could pull middle-income countries out of middle …
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remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … square (2SLS) regression analysis, this study establishes that, in general, international remittances per gross domestic … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar …
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and grants) for low income countries in a cross section analysis. We find that remittances smooth some portion of the … of the smoothing via remittances, we find that smoothing via remittance increases for a country as the emigrants of that …. We explore that cultural factors - through religion - affect the extent of smoothing via remittances significantly …
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Score to assess the effects of fintech development on demand for savings, borrowing, and remittances for 16 of the world …
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