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The impact of International remittances on Gross Fixed Capital Formation in Kenya: Evidence from an autoregressive distributed lag modelling approach [PDF]

Cogent Business & Management, 2023
Despite the general increase in remittance inflows in Kenya over the last four decades, it remains unknown as to whether part of these remittances forms an integral portion of productive investment in the aggregate economy.
Cyprian Amutabi
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Remittances, institutions and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Journal of Economics and Development, 2021
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between remittances, institutions and human development (HD) in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using data from 2004 to 2018.
Umar Mohammed
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Financial development in Jordan: Where do remittances play a role in bank credit? [PDF]

Accounting, 2021
The Jordanian economy has been a recipient of huge amounts of remittances. Indeed, for more than a decade now, the inflow of this capital has been fluctuating around 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Yaseen, Hadeel, Omet, Ghassan
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Remittances

The Independent practitioner
Remittances (i.e., the money, objects, ideas, and social capital migrants send to their families, kin, and communities in their places of origin) are a crucial part of the global economy and migration dynamics. On a micro level, they recognize, maintain, affirm, and disrupt social relationships across the world, mapping out a transnational space in ...
Silke Meyer, Claudius Ströhle
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Effects of International and Internal Remittanaces on Financial Inclusion in Ghana [PDF]

Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks, 2020
This article examines the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion in Ghana. The data for the study was extracted from the results of an analytical review of the living standards survey indicators in Ghana. The methodological tools of the
John Gartchie Gatsi
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Rents, the moral economy of remittances, and the rise of a new transnational development model

Revue de la Régulation, 2022
World remittances accounted for 714 billion $US in 2018 of which 550bn $US flew to the Global South. In today’s Global South, remittances are a major source of foreign exchange earnings. Remittances increasingly question the notion of the Global South as
Hannes Warnecke-Berger
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Analysis of the Propagation Effects of Remittances on the Vulnerability of External Trade of the Republic of Moldova [PDF]

Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2021
: In the Republic of Moldova remittances have become a much-discussed subject, the country ranking among the economies with the highest share of remittances in terms of GDP.
Mircea DIAVOR
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Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse? [PDF]

World Development, 2008
This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers' remittances and institutional quality in the recipient country. Using a simple model, we show how an increase in remittance inflows can lead to deterioration of institutional quality - specifically, to an increase in the share of funds diverted by the ...
Jihad Dagher, Ralph Chami, Peter J Montiel, Yasser Abdih   +3 more
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An Evaluation of the Determinants of Remittances: Evidence from Nigeria

African Human Mobility Review, 2021
International remittances have grown to become an integral source of finance for development. Existing literature posits that there is an association between remittances and growth in developing countries. Economic growth models highlight the importance
Temitope Laniran, Daniel Adeniyi
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Remittances to Mexico. Macroeconomic and microeconomic uses

Summa, 2023
This article discusses the macroeconomic and microeconomic characteristics of Mexican remittances from 2003 to the present day. To study the macroeconomic relevance of remittances, we use the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) balance of payments from a heterodox
Víctor Isidro Luna, Rafael López Vega
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