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foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after …
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finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …
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Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … effect of remittances and foreign direct investment is lower on economic growth and inequality than the individual effect of … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances …
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. In this context, this study focuses on exploring the effects of remittances on the energy poverty of 13 Latin American … growth and financial development act as mediators, allowing remittances to indirectly contribute to mitigating energy poverty …Energy poverty represents a critical challenge in Latin America today, given the social disparities the region faces …
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households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … domestic product in 2008. Remittances have become the single most important source of foreign exchange to the economy and a …
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remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar … indicates that most of the poverty alleviation role of remittances is contributed by its direct effect on increasing the wealth …
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