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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 …
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In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …
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The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …
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We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …
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The paper explores the impact of workers' remittances on the level of export diversification. The hypothesis is that … significant inflow of remittances causes overvaluation of real exchange rate, which in turn deteriorates diversity of export. The …–2016 period and System GMM methodology. The evidence suggests that indeed large inflow of remittances is associated with less …
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, and economic development and whether inward remittances may help to construct an inclusive financial system. Using both … endogeneity-robust generalized method of moments and a structural equation model, our results show that remittances and financial … remittances and improve financial inclusion status are of great importance and could pull middle-income countries out of middle …
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Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
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their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …
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