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Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2006

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception …, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the …"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances …

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Remittances and Poverty in Ghana

Adams, Jr., Richard H. - 2016

Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he … finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the poverty …The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from …

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Regional migration, insurance and economic shocks : evidence from Nicaraguax

Millán, Teresa Molina - 2015

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...

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Poverty as a rural phenomenon in Ghana : the role of remittance income and child dependency

Afful-Mensah, Gloria; Ayisi, Richard Kwabi - In: Ghanaian journal of economics : GJE 8 (2020) 1, pp. 61-82

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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda

Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - 2019

This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...

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