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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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Do migrant remittances matter for financial development in Kenya?
Financial Innovation, 2019 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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A Spatial Analysis on International Remittances, Food Consumption and Deprivation in Indonesia
Journal of ASEAN Studies, 2015 This paper aims to illustrate how international remittances may relate to food consumption and deprivation in Indonesia. The idea is that international remittances may contribute to the reduction of poverty, and since food consumption is an element with
Maria Elfani
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Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth in Nepal
Nepal Public Policy Review, 2021 Remittances have become a significant source of foreign exchange as well as funds for small business start-ups and expansion and consumption spending of recipient households in developing countries.
Prasiddha Shakya, George P. Gonpu
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Remittances-finance-growth trilogy: Do remittance and financial development complement or substitute each other to affect growth in Nigeria? [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2023 The study examines the absorptive role of financial development in the remittance-growth nexus in Nigeria between 1986-2017. In particular, the shortrun, long-run, and causal links between remittances, financial development, and economic growth ...
Dada James Temitope, Akinlo Taiwo
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How Do Transaction Costs Influence Remittances
IMF Working Papers, 2022 : Using a new quarterly panel database on remittances (71 countries over the period 2011Q1-2020Q4), this paper investigates the elasticity of remittances to transaction costs in a high frequency and dynamic setting.
Kangni Kpodar, Patrick Amir Imam
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Remittances, natural resource rent and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 Despite the established link between oil rent fluctuations and remittances received, its plausible joint effect on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains unexplored.
P. Ofori, D. Grechyna
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Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic
IMF Working Papers, 2021 This paper provides an early assessment of the dynamics and drivers of remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a newly compiled monthly remittance dataset for a sample of 52 countries, of which 16 countries have bilateral remittance data.
Kangni Kpodar +3 more
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on foreign remittances and whether it affects them symmetrically or asymmetrically.
Rana Yassir Hussain +3 more
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The interactive effects of remittances on economic growth and inequality in Western Balkan countries
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2021 Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the Western Balkans as a whole (WB6).
Ujkan Q. Bajra
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