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Workers' Remittances to Former Soviet States [PDF]
Workers' remittances are an important source of external finance for many former Soviet countries. Nevertheless, the determinants of remittances are only rarely analyzed.
Schrooten, Mechthild
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International Remittances, Domestic Remittances, and Income Inequality in the Dominican Republic
Inequality decomposition techniques are used to analyze the different impacts of domestic and international remittances on household income inequality in the Dominican Republic.
Kimhi, Ayal
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Impacts of International Migration and Remittances [PDF]
We use original 2005 survey data from Fiji and Tonga on remittances and household income to estimate the combined impact of migration and remittances on the composition of household income. A two-stage methodology is followed.
Richard P.C. Brown, Gareth Leeves
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Remittances in India: Facts and Issues
This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it’s growth since the 1990’s, the different uses of remittances across ...
Chinmay, Tumbe
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Remittances matter: Longitudinal evidence from Albania [PDF]
Using the LSMS panel data collected by the World Bank in Albania from 2002 to 2004, this paper focuses on the determinants and financial implication of remittances sent by family members and adult children living abroad. Our econometric analysis draws on
Laetitia Duval, François-Charles Wolff
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Do remittances affect poverty and inequality ? Evidence from Mali. [PDF]
Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances.
Lessourd, Thomas +2 more
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Remittances and economic growth: what channels of transmission? (In French) [PDF]
This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using the SGMM method, estimates based on data from 27 developing countries show that remittances have a positive and significant effect on ...
Sami Ben Mim (ERUDITE) +1 more
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Gender and Remittances in Vietnam
Since the 1990s, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic growth in remittance flows. This paper uses the Vietnam Living Standard Surveys for 1992/93 and 1997/98 to study the role of gender in these remittance flows, both from the perspective of receiving and ...
Pfau, Wade Donald, Giang, Thanh Long
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Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence [PDF]
remittances, capital flows, development ...
Solimano, Andres
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Migration history, remittances and poverty in rural mexico [PDF]
During the last twenty years, Mexico experienced a big increase in the migration of rural labor force to the United States. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in remittances; by 2002, remittances accounted on average for more than 10% of
Alejandro Lopez-feldman
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