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Remittances have risen spectacularly in recent decades, capturing the attention of researchers and policymakers and … spurring debate on their pros and cons. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost the …
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Remittances have risen spectacularly in recent decades, capturing the attention of researchers and policymakers and … spurring debate on their pros and cons. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404915
Remittances have risen spectacularly in absolute terms and in relation to traditional sources of foreign exchange, such … as export revenues. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost growth rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331202
The study explored the impact of remittances on poverty in selected emerging markets. On the theoretical front, the … optimistic view argued that remittances inflow into the labour exporting country reduces poverty whereas the pessimistic view … proponents said that remittances dependence syndrome retards both economic growth and income per capita. Separately, using two …
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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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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 … remittances, trade openness, unemployment, and partly financial development significantly increased infant mortality rates in …
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Despite the voluminous literature on the effect of aid-for-trade (AfT) flows on recipient countries’ trade performance, little is known about the relationship between AfT flows and other capital flows to developing countries. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the effect of...
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Migrants’ remittances are an important financial flow to their country of origin. Remittances sent by migrants reduce … private consumption and their investments. This paper aims to analyse the impact of remittances on economic growth, private … countries collected for the period between 1989 and 2015. Using a panel data set , our results show that migrants’ remittances …
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International remittances by immigrants to their home countries is key in the funding development in migrant …-enhancing effect of remittances. Thus, the study helps explain the development dilemma of remittance inflows and financial inclusion in …
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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 … square (2SLS) regression analysis, this study establishes that, in general, international remittances per gross domestic … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar …
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