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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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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 +3 more
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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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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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The Independent practitionerAbstract 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
Silke Meyer, Claudius Ströhle
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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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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 and Democratization [PDF]
International Studies Quarterly, 2015 This chapter tackles the correlation between remittances and democratization. It explores how remittances could shape two types of political outcomes. The first outcome had been the remittance flows increasing the strength and mobilization capacity of opposition parties and civil society organizations, while the other political outcome involves the ...
Escribà-Folch, Abel +2 more
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The Impact of Expatriate Remittances on Economic Growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
المجلة العربية للإدارة, 2022 This study seeks to uncover the nature of the relationship that expatriate labor remittances have in the economic growth of Saudi Arabia. Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) and Non-Linear ARDL (NARDL) are used as a method to discover the influence ...
Imadeddin Almosabbeh
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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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