On planewave remittances and Goos-Haenchen shifts of planar slabs with negative real permittivity and permeability [PDF]
Two results about the planewave response of an isotropic, dielectric--magnetic, homogeneous, planar slab are deduced when the real parts of both the permittivity and the permeability are altered from positive to negative. First, the reflection and the transmission coefficients suffer phase reversals without change in their respective magnitudes. Second,
A. Lakhtakia
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Do migrant remittances matter for financial development in Kenya?
The paper analyzes the relationship between remittances and financial development using Kenyan quarterly data from 2006 to 2016. Five different indicators of financial development are used: credit to the private sector as a share of GDP, the number of ...
Roseline Nyakerario Misati+2 more
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Do Remittances Promote Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Latin American Countries
In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers’ remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American countries, and (b) workers’ remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries.
E. M. Ekanayake, Carlos Moslares
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The impact of remittances on economic growth: An econometric model
Remittances in the world represent one of major international financial resources, which sometimes they exceed the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI).
Dietmar Meyer, Adela Shera
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Remittances, institutions and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
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]
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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Effects of International and Internal Remittanaces on Financial Inclusion in Ghana [PDF]
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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Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances upon Poverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia.
Remittances have always played a central role in strengthening the economies of low-income and middle-income developing countries. The remittances have also provided a phenomenal support to the economy of Uzbekistan, which is the third leading recipient ...
Farrukh Nawaz Kayani
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Rents, the moral economy of remittances, and the rise of a new transnational development model
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]
: 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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