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search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing …
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Remittances are an important source of external financing in Pakistan, amounting to around 10% of gross domestic … product in 2021. As such, an appropriate understanding of the key macroeconomic drivers of remittances has important policy … implications. Combining a database of bilateral remittances between Pakistan and its main remittance-sending countries with monthly …
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major factors associated with remittances using gravity models of bilateral remittances. An analysis that assesses … correlation coefficients between the cyclical factors of remittances and gross domestic product suggests that remittances tend to … economy. This observation is confirmed by the gravity models of bilateral remittances. Furthermore, the estimation results …
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Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …
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growth, while are remittances the increasingly the catalyst of the population’s welfare. The purpose of the study is to … analyze the answer about the relationship between remittances and FDI inflows in Kosovo, Switzerland and Denmark. Secondary … capita growth, net migration, remittances, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, household consumption, and population number, give …
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Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances … labor market and encouraging uncontrolled individual relocation. This paper also reveals that although remittances have …
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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. In recent decades, workers' remittances … have become an important source of income for many developing countries and, as a global aggregate, workers' remittances …
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The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …
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migrants’ remittances on financial inclusion in selected SSA countries. Pooled Mean Group (PMG) form of panel ARDL was employed … robustness checks. For the purpose of this empirical investigation, we collected data on Remittances, Account Ownership and … Income Per Capita for 27 SSA countries based on data availability. The conclusion is that remittances have no significant …
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explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and … remittances, trade openness, unemployment, and partly financial development significantly increased infant mortality rates in …
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