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What is the impact of male migration on the labor market behavior of women in Nepal? The instrumental variable full information maximum likelihood method is applied to data from the 2004 Nepal Household Survey to account for unobserved factors that could simultaneously affect men's decision to...
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The impact of migration on food security and child health is likely to differ depending on whether children themselves migrate or whether they remain behind while other household members migrate. However, existing studies have not been able to examine how impacts differ in these two scenarios...
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effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
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Migration is a phenomenon that reflects economic, social and demographic imbalances across countries and requires a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and manage. This paper offers some observations on the complex issue of the development impact of migration. It will do so by commenting...
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entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
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associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …
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This report attempts to fill that gap for two of the most important water-related issues facing the effects of climate variability and the steady degradation of the nation's water resources. The study reported here concluded that the El Niño-La Niña episode from 1997-2000 cost the country Ksh...
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-- World -- Migration -- Migration, 2005 -- Skilled Emigration, 2000 -- Remittances -- Developing Countries -- Migration … -- Data on Remittances1 -- Sources of Data -- Bibliography -- Migration and Remittances: Top 10 Countries -- Introduction … -- Emigration, 2005 -- Skilled Emigration, 2000 -- Immigration, 2005 -- Remittances -- Regional Tables -- Introduction -- East Asia …
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In regard to migration and remittances for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, the overview chapter summarizes … documenting the trends of international migration and remittances in this region since the period of transition (chapters one and …
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motivation in the framework of extended family agreements, we embed remittances in a formal demand system, suggesting that they … analysing the determinants of remittances. …
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