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There is scattered evidence suggesting a positive impact of international remittances on economic insecurity, at both a … impact of remittances on economic security are useful only up to a certain point; beyond that their effect can be influenced … the remittances. The policy implications outlined in the paper include the need for caution and retrospection in certain …
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The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … on the growth of these countries (macro level analysis) and to foresee the translation of this effect on the poverty and …
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The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less … clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the … receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by examining how remittances are affected by domestic and external …
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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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This paper discusses migration and remittances trends, and calculates the natural (or benchmark) level of dollarization … remittances due to the economic slowdown since the spread of COVID-19 affects the macroeconomic fundamentals that determine demand …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158911
squares (OLS) and interval regression methods are used to estimate the migrants' earnings model, while for the remittances … determinants of remittances are migrants' investments in their home countries, migrants' perceptions of the business environment …
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squares (OLS) and interval regression methods are used to estimate the migrants’ earnings model, while for the remittances … determinants of remittances are migrants’ investments in their home countries, migrants’ perceptions of the business environment …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …
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effect of remittances and foreign direct investment is lower on economic growth and inequality than the individual effect of …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 …
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