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Do International Remittances Alleviate or Aggravate Poverty in Developing Countries?

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  • Serino, Moises Neil

    (Visayas State University)

  • Ratilla, Therese

    (Visayas State University)

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This study investigates the effect of surging increase in international remittances on poverty level in developing countries controlling for income, inequality, and other sources of external funding. Using the newly suggested remittance variable, the method of panel data analysis was applied across 66 developing countries for 9 panel years from 1981 to 2005. Results suggest that international remittances helped in alleviating poverty in developing countries as manifested by the significant negative relationship of remittances on dimensions of poverty such as level, depth and severity of poverty using the methods of pooled ordinary least square method. However, the significance of this alleviating effect of remittances vanishes when using panel data approach suggesting that the alleviating effect of remittances on poverty is less apparent in developing countries when controlling for individual country specific effect.

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  • Serino, Moises Neil & Ratilla, Therese, 2018. "Do International Remittances Alleviate or Aggravate Poverty in Developing Countries?," Review of Socio-Economic Research and Development Studies, Visayas State University, Visayas Socio-Economic Research and Data Analytics Center (ViSERDAC) and Department of Economics (DOE), College of Management and Economics (CME), vol. 2(1), pages 43-64, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:btb:journl:v:2:y:2018:i:1:p:43-64
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4517252
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    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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