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, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
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, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural–urban migration and international remittances …Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052162
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural–urban migration and international remittances …Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077557
In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are importantsupplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage ofexogenous shocks to the remittance receipts of...
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world’s highest ratio of remittances to their GDP. During last few years numerous studies focused on migration issues within …This paper assesses recent migration trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Within the last decade … motivate this large-scale migration? What are the current trends in the labour migration in the CIS? What are the short …
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This paper illustrates that cross-country generalizations about the impact of remittances on economic security are …, immigration policies and conditions in the host country, and the size and concentrations of the remittances. The policy …
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Migration to New Zealand and consequent remittance inflows are dominant features of many Pacific Island countries …
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We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw … of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effect is substantially smaller than the one that we find focusing … empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …
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. Well-being outcomes are then compared by age group, primary caregiver, migration status of the household (current migrant …, return migrant, or no migration experience), and by who has migrated within the household. It was found that migration in and … living standards experienced by the household are much stronger predictors of well-being than household migration status in a …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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