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undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to … is both correlated with remittances and would only be expected to affect growth through its effect on remittances. The …
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We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …
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We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results point to the continued existence of economic links between...
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This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in...
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Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …
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impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …
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economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality … poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …
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This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …
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poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …
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