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This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education...
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This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Information sharing is proxied with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. All dynamics of financial development...
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The objective of this research is to analyze South-South remittances, i.e. remittances made between developing … migration and remittances, ii) analyze the impact of departure conditions on the migrants’ remittance behavior, iii) study … play an important role in the migrant’s decision to remit. They also highlight that South-South remittances are largely …
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In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the … cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … contributed to Africa's growing economic misery, due to the damaging effects of European selfish external trade policy …
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Migrant remittances reached 21 billion dollars in SSA in 2008 according to the World Bank estimates. Despite these … existing studies on the impact of remittances in SSA have been mostly in the form of case studies at the microeconomic level or … reports. The objective of our study is to fill in this gap by investigating the impact of remittances on savings and …
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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 … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …
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The study examines the cyclicality of diaspora remittances in Zimbabwe. The cyclicality of diaspora remittances aid in … diaspora remittances flows data for the country Zimbabwe for period 2009-2019. Data for the two variables were properly … transformed to enable good results derivation. Using the trend and correlation statistic the study found that diaspora remittances …
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flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … (2000) for which aid is about 9.5% of GDP. The partial effects in these regressions are as follows. Remittances enhance net …
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This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of … remittances on the propagation of real and monetary shocks. This study is conducted by employing dynamic panel generalized method … inflation is used to proxy for real and monetary volatility, respectively. The results show that the impact of remittances on …
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flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … (2000) for which aid is about 9.5% of GDP. The partial effects in these regressions are as follows. Remittances enhance net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712035