Do Remittances Influence Household Investment Decisions? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Keywords
Remittances; Investments; Africa; Physical capital; Human capital; Social Capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2021-02-08 (Development)
- NEP-MIG-2021-02-08 (Economics of Human Migration)
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