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In Bangladesh, remittances from migrant workers are an important component of national income and a source for financing consumption and investment. This article investigates the relationship between remittances, financial sector development and economic growth in Bangladesh over the period of...
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vector error correction model (VECM) and Toda Yamamoto Granger Non Causality test (1995) suggest that there is causality from …
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positive remittance shocks impact environmental degradation, and adverse shocks have a favourable effect. The causality results …
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Debates over economic policy tend to be enormously confused. It is often the case that even high-level officials and well-known economists seem ignorant of basic accounting identities. This leads them to make claims that literally do not add up. This seems to be especially common in the case of...
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The rising importance of China as a major U.S. trading partner is the most important change in the international specialization pattern of the U.S. over the last decade. Using a multi-dimensional approach and a detailed dataset, we analyze the evolution over time of the trad relationship between...
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Since the beginning of the decade, France has seen a marked decline in its export performance, leading to growing concerns on the part of the authorities and of civil society about the economy’s capacity to adapt to the intensified globalisation of trade and investment in goods and services....
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methods that allow designing and analyzing observational data and enable reducing selection bias. We use data from the Nepal … Living Standards Survey 2010/2011. In general, remittance recipient households tend to spend more on consumption, health and … education as compared to remittance non-receiving households. Although the findings do not clearly provide evidence of either …
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understanding the migration-remittance-productivity nexus in Nepal as well as other similar socioeconomic societies from South Asia. …This paper analyzes the effect of earned and unearned remittances on agricultural productivity in Nepal. This approach …
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countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …
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countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …
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