Remittances and Development in Latin America

By Pablo A. Acosta, C. Calderón, Pablo Fajnzylber, Humberto López. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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School Attendance, Child Labour, and Remittances from International Migration in El Salvador (2011, background): “(Acosta et al., 2006).”
Labor Supply, School Attendance, and Remittances from International Migration: The Case of El Salvador (2006, background): “Official Salvadoran migrants in OECD countries reached 12% of total population by 2000 (Acosta et al., 2006). Early migrants constituted a social network at destination that helped subsequent emigration during the 1990s.(5) Even after achieving peace in the 1990s, migration flows remained high durin”
The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital: Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys (2007, methodology): “Indeed, Acosta et al. (2006) find that there is a stable relationship across countries between the two sources of data, with BOP based estimates surpassing household survey data estimates by about 73 percent (with an R2 of 0.8 obtained for the corresponding regression line linking the two series).”
The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ghana (2008, background): “38 Notes 1 The following studies have analyzed the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Latin America and Asia: Acosta et al (2006) on Latin America, Lokshin et al (2007) on Nepal, Adams on Guatemala (2004), Taylor, Mora and Adams on Mexico (2005) and Yang and Martinez on the…”
The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes (2010, background): “More than any policy, remittances were most responsible for poverty reduction in Latin America (ACOSTA et al., 2006).”
The economic impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment in Indonesia (2010, methodology): “In a similar study using household survey data from 10 Latin American countries, Acosta et al (2006) find that international remittances reduce poverty by 0.4 percent for each percentage point increase in the remittances to GDP ratio.”