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Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal

Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob - 2014

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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Climate change, natural disasters, and migration

Mbaye, Linguère Mously - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

The relationship between climatic shocks, natural disasters, and migration has received increasing attention in recent years and is quite controversial. One view suggests that climate change and its associated natural disasters increase migration. An alternative view suggests that climate change...

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Remittances and household expenditure in Nepal: Evidence from cross-section data

Thapa, Sridhar; Acharya, Sanjaya - In: Economies 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the effect of remittances on household expenditure patterns applying propensity score matching … the productive or non-productive use of remittances, expenditures on non-food investment categories, such as durable goods …

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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021

Rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. We measure the economic impact of introducing mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized control trial. This intervention led to consumption smoothing through increased...

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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023

reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural …, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

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Migration in LDCs: Risk, Remittances, and the Family

Stark, Oded - In: Finance and Development 28 (1991) 4, pp. 39-41

Labor votes with its feet-individuals migrate from areas of low wages to areas of higher wages. That has been the traditional view, one that has spawned much policy advice to control migration and to affect the location decisions of migrant laborers. But recent research indicates that portfolio...

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The Promise and Default of the “Kerala Model”

Savu, Blessy Mathew; Dimitriu, Maria Caracota - In: Romanian Economic Journal 15 (2012) 45, pp. 171-188

remittances sent home from Gulf countries. This paper looks into the Kerala Model which shows economic development without …

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Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities

Siegel, Melissa; Waidler, Jennifer - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

deprivation in infrastructure and the multi-dimensional index, while we find no significant results for remittances sent to the …

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Labor supply in response to remittance income: the case of Mexico

Airola, Jim - In: Journal of Developing Areas 41 (2008) 2, pp. 69-78

remittances as a development mechanism. This study attempts to understand to what degree labor patterns are affected by the … receipt of remittances. Using nationally representative household income and expenditure data for Mexico, I analyze the effect … range of -.006 to -.03. This finding attenuates to some degree the measure of the impact of remittances in the receiving …

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Remittances and Poverty in Migrants’ Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines.

Alvear, Claudia Martínez; Yang, Dean - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are importantsupplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage ofexogenous shocks to the remittance receipts of...

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