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Remittances in India : Facts and Issues
Tumbe, Chinmay - 2011
household consumption expenditure in remittance receiving households that formed nearly 10% of rural India (c) Domestic …
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A Comparison of the Welfare Gains to the Households of South Indians Migrating for Jobs within India versus Internationally
Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2017
This study compares the welfare gains to households in Kerala, India from two types of labor migration: moving overseas versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted in 1998 and 2003. Migrant households as a whole...
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Flickering lifelines : electrification and household welfare in India
Sedai, Ashish Kumar; Nepal, Rabindra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020
household welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, income, assets and poverty status. The results show large gaps between … income and the rich, as well as in rural and urban areas. The methods used are panel fixed effects instrumental variables …
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The effect of remittances on crime in India
Mahesh, Malvika - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/1, pp. 1-18
growth and poverty. Owing to the poverty-alleviating and income-generating effects of remittances, it may theoretically … as remittance receipts increase income and welfare, there is a diverse effect on the costs and benefits of different …
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
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Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian …
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An absolute multidimensional poverty measure in the functioning space (and relative measure in the resource space): An illustration using Indian data
Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the functioning space. As suggested by Sen, if the measure aims to be absolute in the functioning space, it needs to be relative in the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this...
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Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2020
out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210232
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Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2020
out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269893