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investigate the impact of personal remittances and RMG export income on income disparity in the case of Bangladesh. … income for Bangladesh's economy. The study investigates their impact on income inequality and gross domestic product (GDP) as … Personal remittances positively contribute to reducing the income gap among the people of the society and declining income …
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This paper investigates the distributional consequences of international remittances using a panel data set from sixty … five developing economies from 1970 to 2015. It focuses on complementarity between financial development and remittances in … determining the inequality-impact of remittances using instrumental variables techniques of panel data for empirical analysis. The …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …
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migration and a sharp growth in the remittances-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio; in 2011/12 it was about 23%. The … conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However …, households are spending remittances largely on consumer activities; therefore, this situation is labeled as "short-term" IG …
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This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
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