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The modes of remittances of households in Bangladesh have been categorised as 'No Remit- tances', 'Internal Remittances …' and 'International Remittances'. This paper using a Multinomial Logit Model studies the associations between these modes … and the households' basic characteristics. The study reveals that household level variables like rural-urban locations …
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This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …
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well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio … to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific …
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The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a … wonder about their effects on household decisionmaking, particularly in relation to the number of children to have. While … this is household specific, when considered at the community and country level, there are significant policy implications …
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yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the … instrumental variable estimation to confirm a positive relationship between receiving remittances and household welfare after … correcting for endogeneity. Moreover, we find that the effect of remittances on household spending is more pronounced in …
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households. The effect of remittances on interhousehold transfers is empirically investigated using an urban household survey … transfer given, controlling for total household income and other covariates. -- international remittances ; interhousehold …The paper studies the link between international remittances and interhousehold transfers. Using a simple insurance …
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extracted dataset from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2015 (IFPRI 2016), 312 households have selected in two … productive capabilities of the household (Raghuram 2007). It is commonly assumed that the prevailing large male …-dominated migration from Bangladesh brings extended freedom and economic participation of the women from the left-behind families. This …
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of Bangladesh. The study focuses on quantitative analysis of unbalanced panel data of 8 countries on remittance receiving … of Bangladesh for the period of 1981-2019 by employing fixed effects model and random effects model. The results show … significant positive impact on remittance receiving of Bangladesh. GDP per capita of home country has significant negative impact …
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Remittances’ effect on a household’s health outcome (e.g. Infant mortality) is ambiguous, but the impact on health … households in southern Bangladesh. Health expenditure and remittances are jointly related; therefore, we use the instrumental …-affected remittances recipient households). We find that while remittances cause household health expenditures to increase, the marginal …
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