Listar por tema "remittances"
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Do Transfer Costs Matter for Foreign Remittances? A Gravity Model Approach
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2016)Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, this is the first study that examines the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction ... -
Examining the relationship between remittance flows and household businesses investment in Colombia
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-29)This paper anlayzes the achievable relationship between remittances receipt and business ownership in Colombia. For this purpose, a bivariate probit model is estimated by using the 2009 Latin American Migration Project ... -
Flujos de remesas y COVID-19 en países de América Latina. Reflexiones al inicio de la pandemia
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (2020-10)Las remesas que los inmigrantes envían a su país de origen contribuyen a alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), permitiendo que muchas familias salgan de la pobreza. Dichos envíos han disminuido en la ... -
The impact of COVID-19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries
Wiley (2021-12-30)Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances ... -
The relevance of brain drain in economic development
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-15)This paper is focused on the effects of studying brain drain for the developing countries. This work contains an analysis of the recent theories based in these effects and other classical theories which are still cited ...