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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"remittances"”.
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The domestic impact of international remittances : t he role of Dominican remittances in Washington Heights, New York
… writing about, and celebration of the benefit of remittances on the economies of developing countries. However, there are no studies on the impact of these remittances on the communities within the United States from which these remittances originate. This lack of attention is particularly …
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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 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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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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Immigrants and Remittances: The Financial Ties That Bind
… a solid understanding of the overall concept of remittances and past literature that has investigated a similar topic. My findings show that the major differences that exist amongst high-skilled and low-skilled respondents are found with regards to gender, marital status, number of children in …
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Skilled Migration and Remittances: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
… investigates the impact of skilled migrants' remittances and import tariffs of migrant-sending countries on skilled migration. The first chapter builds a model that predicts the positive association between emigration of skilled individuals and the proportion of remittances from them by …
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Empirical Essays on Migration and Remittances in Pakistan
… financing of migration, decision to send remittances and spill-over effects on remittances. These essays are presented in Chapters four through seven. Other chapters include a general introduction, literature review and concluding remarks and policy discussions. Chapter four (essay one) …
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International Remittances Flow to Nigeria: A Household Perspective
… situation. Extant research shows that foreign remittances can finance families in developing countries to fund welfare needs. Even though remittance flows to the region peaked at around $25 billion in 2018, people struggle to finance household activities. In the absence of a consensus, …
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Financial Development Channels and Remittances in the SADC
… Sub-Saharan Africa. Financial development and remittances could be potential catalysts, but this has been strongly debated in empirical research. This study, therefore, analysed the financial development-remittance-growth nexus, but from the context of the Southern African Development Community …
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The impact of remittances on GDP in CARICOM
This study investigates the relationship between remittances and economic growth in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) from 1975 to 2013, where remittances are measured as a share of GDP and economic growth is measured by GDP per capita growth. Using multivariate linear regression analysis and the …
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Migrant Capitalism: Emigration, Remittances, and Urbanization in Punjab
… the wealthiest regions in the country, buoyed by remittances from the diaspora, but also an agrarian economy in decline, as the 2021 historic protests have attested to. Punjabi farmers, once perceived as the favored beneficiaries of state-led development policies, are now ensconced in a social and …
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Investment of migrant remittances : some evidence from anthropology
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Analysis on Market for Remittances in the Czech Republic
Tato bakalářská práce se pokouší vrhnout světlo na cestu remitencí mezi Českou republikou a Mongolskem, v rámci analýzy založené pouze na znalostí autora, protože publikované odborné analýzy odborníků zatím neexistují. Tato práce zkoumá nejen podmínky na trhu remitencí v České republice jako celek, …
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Three Essays On Migration, Remittances And Human Capital Formation
… The second essay analyzes the determinants of remittances using household data from Ecuador. It provides empirical evidence as follows: remittances and household migration size are non-monotonically related, remittances are altruistically motivated, the size of remittances decreases with time …
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The Effects of International Remittances on Child Schooling in Ecuador
… mostly to Europe and the United States. The remittances migrants started sending back rapidly increased and soon represented an important share of the GDP. This became a new source of income (or the only one) for many households. The present research project analyzes, through the use of an …
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in Malaysia: Trade, Remittances and Unemployment
… second essay explores the relationship between remittances of the Indonesian workers in Malaysia and the macroeconomic variables both in Malaysia and Indonesia. The last empirical essay analyses the relationship between unemployment and immigration in Malaysia. These empirical essays use …
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Impact of transaction costs on intra Southern African migrants remittances
The average charges of officially transferring remittances from South Africa to other Southern African countries have been regarded as expensive compared to other main corridor of south-south remittance, and this has long been recognized as a major drain on the income of migrants and their …
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Internal migration, remittances and household welfare: evidence from South Africa
In this thesis, I investigate the economic linkages between internal labour migration and the welfare of migrant-sending households and communities. The analysis is couched in the new economics of labour migration theory, which recognises the familial participation in migration decisions and …
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Financial development, remittances and economic growth : empirical evidence from Egypt
The relationship between remittances, financial development, and real growth in recent years has increasingly become a topic of interest for scholars and practitioners alike. With the ever presence of globalization, the migratory patterns have fundamentally changed. The migration of people no …
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