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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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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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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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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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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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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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