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Remittances, crowd-in effect, and household welfare

open access: yesScientific African, 2023
Migrant remittances are associated with consumption smoothing and poverty reduction. However, the effect of migrant remittances on non-remittance income is not clear.
Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management

open access: yesProgress in Human Geography, 2021
The management of remittances represents a multi-billion industry that is concerned with how these flows can be tapped into by a wide range of institutional, state and private sector actors.
Vincent Guermond
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extrinsic effect of remittance houses on desire to migrate and usage of irregular migration routes

open access: yesResearch in Globalization, 2022
Characteristics of remittance houses display the new financial and social status of migrants; hence, serve as a motivation for others to migrate abroad.
Adams Osman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Impacts of the COVID−19 Lockdown in a Remittance‐Dependent Region

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020
The economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on poor and vulnerable households living in rural areas of developing countries are not well understood due to a lack of detailed micro-survey data at the household level Utilizing weekly financial transaction ...
Anubhab Gupta   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure: Circulations, disruptions, and the movement of money

open access: yesTransactions (Institute of British Geographers), 2021
Remittances are increasingly central to development discourses in Africa. The development sector seeks to leverage transnational migration and rapid innovations in financial technologies (fintech), to make remittance systems cheaper for end-users and ...
L. Cirolia   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Catalytic Is Digital Technology in the Nexus between Migrants’ Remittance and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries?

open access: yesEconomies, 2023
Given the indisputable roles of remittance and financial development in countries’ economic performance, enhancing the nexus between the two variables has become pertinent.
Olufunmilayo Olayemi Jemiluyi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Migrants Remittance on Economy Growth in Nigeria: An Empirical Study

open access: yesOpen Journal of Political Science, 2021
Remittance inflows have been increasing significantly in Nigeria over the past decades. They are becoming one of the most constant sources of economic growth and development.
Adenike Adeseye
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is remittance cost a driver of trade misinvoicing? A case study of Vietnam [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Development
Purpose – This study aims to investigate the impact of remittance costs on trade-based money laundering (TBML) and provide insights into the relationship between remittance costs and TBML, particularly focusing on import over-invoicing and low-income ...
Quang Phu Tran
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Remittances Impact: A Mixed-Method Approach to Understand Ghana’s Situation and the Way Forward

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Many scholarly articles on remittance have focused on its positive or negative impact on the macro- or microeconomy. Given that trend, remittance is usually analysed without its sociological elements embedded within the migration process. Therefore, this
Stephen Asafo Agyei
doaj   +1 more source

The mediating role of institutions in the remittance-growth relationship: Evidence from Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2020
This study examines the mediating role of institutions in the remittance- growth relationship in Nigeria. We use autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) estimation to establish the interaction of the variables of interest.
Adekunle Ibrahim Ayoade   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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