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Impact of Remittances on Poverty in Developing Countries

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  • Rashmi Banga
  • Pritish Kumar Sahu

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This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly, separate analyses are undertaken for 29 developing countries and 21 Asian developing counties, which have 5 per cent or more share of remittances in GDP.

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  • Rashmi Banga & Pritish Kumar Sahu, 2010. "Impact of Remittances on Poverty in Developing Countries," Working Papers id:2872, eSocialSciences.
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    2. Yoshino, Naoyuki & Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad & Otsuka, Miyu, 2017. "International Remittances and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asian Developing Countries," ADBI Working Papers 759, Asian Development Bank Institute.
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    6. Madhav Regmi & Krishna P. Paudel, 2017. "Food security in a remittance based economy," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 9(4), pages 831-848, August.
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    remittances; development; Poverty Headcount ratios; PPP; international migration; political; economic; cultural; GDP; Asian countries; developing; poverty;
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