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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 … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar … indicates that most of the poverty alleviation role of remittances is contributed by its direct effect on increasing the wealth …
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The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … weak impact on the poverty, remittances should be taken seriously, and this by taking measures by developed countries to …
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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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foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after …
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countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …
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, political and economic co-responsibility to solve poverty and marginalization of its own public policy orientation and vision of … multidimensional poverty in Mexico, will allow the allocation of public resources in the fight against poverty to be effective since it … in poverty, marginalization and exclusion? What to do so that they do not leave their communities, and if they have …
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This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …
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This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of … Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the relationships among three sets of contingencies: the socio … may become imprisoned in particular types of socio-spatial arrangements that contribute to the emergence of poverty …
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Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …
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This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC … contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …
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