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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Remittance"”.
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Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
… shocks absorbing and welfare improving roles of remittances in emerging economies. I develop a model to derive testable implications for aggregate remittance behavior. Using a panel data set of 102 developing countries from 1975 to 2013 and the generalized method of moments estimator, I find that …
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Hidden Consequences of Remittances: The micro impact of remittance flows in the Albanian remittance-receiving households' behavior
… abroad, these countries are highly dependent on remittances, which in the case of Albania far exceed Foreign Direct Investments. Using household survey data for Albania, the first part of the study compares decision-making about human capital investment in remittance-receiving households and …
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The South Africa-Zimbabwe remittance corridor: an analysis of its characteristics and the cost of remittance payments
… in Zimbabwe. This financial support is known as remittances and is sent as cash or in-kind. This study investigated the characteristics of the South African-Zimbabwe remittance corridor. A critical investigation of the remittance channels used, the type of remittances sent, and the remittance …
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The Welfare Effects of International Remittance Income
… explores the welfare effects of international remittance income, i.e., income earned by migrant workers and sent back to their home country. Remittance income has increased markedly in the last decade, particularly in the developing world. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to quantify …
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Determinants of remittance channels amongst immigrants in South Africa
… shows that there is a substantial flow of remittances from South Africa to other countries in the SADC region. Due to stringent South Africa's migration laws, many of these migrants remain undocumented, and hence use informal channels to remit to their countries of origin. This study …
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Remittance sending among Somalis in London : experiences, motivations, and practices
… were senders) were involved in the process of remittance sending and receiving between family members (UN International Day of Family Remittances: 2019). While much of the discourse around remittances particularly within Development Studies focuses on the impact on receiving communities and …
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The South Africa-Zimbabwe remittance corridor: an analysis of key drivers and constraints
… has been conducted on the topic of migration and remittances over the last few years, but the literature on the South Africa-Zimbabwe remittance corridor remains scarce. Using a survey conducted in April 2010 of 347 Zimbabwean migrants living in the Western Cape Province, this paper is focused on …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance and Households Consumption, Production and Investment Decision: Evidence from Bangladesh
… related essays on the motivation of migration, remittance, and the effect of remittance on households. For the empirical analysis, we use Household Income Expenditure Survey (HIES-2010) data sets from Bangladesh, managed and developed by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Chapter one gives …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… three studies related to labor productivity, remittances use, and the effect of an anti-poverty program on migration and remittances. Labor is the biggest endowment available to the poor. Understanding labor issues is important in addressing the problems of poverty, inequality, migration, and …
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Effect of transaction costs on international remittance flows from developed countries: A Sub-Saharan context
Remittances play a major role both at a household and a macro-level especially in developing countries. They are associated with benefits such as of economic growth and employment opportunities for a country, while at the household level, remittances are a stable source of income in provision of …
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Analysing the use of fintech for cross-border remittance as a livelihood strategy - A case of Nigeria
… examined the use of FinTech for cross- border remittance as a livelihood strategy in Nigeria through the lens of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SLA) framework. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10c aspires to reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances to less than 3%, …
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A review of the National Payment Systems ecosystems in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria
Remittances are a critical financial connection between migrant workers and their families back home. They contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like reducing inequality and ending poverty, while aligning with the objectives of South Africa's National Development Plan, which seeks to …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of particular importance. This thesis is composed of three independent essays that investigate the macroeconomic impacts on small open economies from these three shocks spanning two …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of particular importance. This thesis is composed of three independent essays that investigate the macroeconomic impacts on small open economies from these three shocks spanning two …
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The role of the South African regulatory authorities in combating money laundering and terrorist financing perpetrated through alternative remittance systems
… who typically wish to send money or value home. Remittances can be sent both on a domestic and on a cross-border basis. The methods used to remit money or value can be used for both legitimate and illegal purposes. The question posed by this research is whether the Money Service Businesses that …
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Permeating the wall: Transmitting knowledge remittances as a strategy for health information campaigns in The Republic of Moldova
… to more lucrative economic opportunities abroad. Remittances from emigrants, in many various forms, have become vital agents in the Moldovan economy. This thesis investigated whether remittance activity among immigrants from Moldova in the United States and Canada might be used as a model for an …
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Remittances, Consumption Insurance and Family Labour Supply
… The objectives are to quantitatively examine if remittances are a source of insurance for recipient households, and to explore how remittance income alters family time allocation between market and home production activities. The first substantive chapter presents stylized facts on the properties …
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Essays on International and Environmental Economics
… the economic impacts of climate change, and remittance transfers. The first chapter examines the role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the 2008-2009 recession. In the model, production sharing is represented by a tradable sector that produces a composite good exclusively …
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Essays on remittances, R&D and macroeconomy
… of three self-contained empirical essays on remittances and R&D but unified by their importance to developing economies' economic growth, productivity, and the macroeconomy. The first essay revisits the debate on remittance and economic growth by examining whether there is a 'remittance trap' …
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