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Remittances in India : Facts and Issues
Tumbe, Chinmay - 2011
This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household … characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it's growth since the 1990's, the different uses of remittances …-08, 60% being Inter-State transfers and 80% directed towards rural households (b) Domestic remittances financed over 30% of …
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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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Motivating migrants: A field experiment on financial decision-making in transnational households
Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 119-127
We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13–17months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...
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Financial Crisis and Migrant Remittances : Effects on Growth and Poverty in Selected South Asian Countries
Mahmud, Mahreen - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137468
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Credit to Woman : Evidence From Loans to Migrant Households in India
Bahure, Vikram - 2023
Despite a large body of research, there is limited causal evidence available to understand the impact of providing credit access to women in households on overall household well-being. This paper aims to measure the effects of providing credit to women compared to men on household well-being...
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India Migration Bibliography
Tumbe, Chinmay - 2012
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes,...
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Road Access, Fertility and Child Health in Rural India
Dasgupta, Aparajita; Karandikar, Anahita; Raghav, Devvrat - 2022
Expansion in access to public infrastructure can have varied, micro-level impacts. In this paper, we use quasi-random access to rural paved roads through a large-scale road-construction program in India to study how road access impacts fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264727
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Motivating Migrants : A Field Experiment on Financial Decision-Making in Transnational Households
Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2014
We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061036
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Trends and Correlates of Remittances to India
Gupta, Poonam - 2011
The current global economic slowdown had raised the concern that the remittances to developing countries would slow … down. This paper examines the remittance flows to India and analyzes their correlates. Remittances to India exhibit a … strong growth over time, with the rate of growth averaging about 10 percent a year in constant USD since 1991. Remittances in …
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