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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and …The study investigates the impact of human capital development on poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries …

unattainable. International remittances of immigrants to their country of origin is one of the most important elements contributing …

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 …

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 …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual ….6% respectively. -- remittances ; poverty ; inequality ; Ethiopia …