Remittances in Asia: Implications for the Fight against Poverty and the Pursuit of Economic Growth
Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Jha, Shikha; Sugiyarto, Guntur | December 2009
Abstract
This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988–2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth. A 10% increase in remittances as a share of GDP leads to a 0.9–1.2% increase in GDP growth. The findings also show that remittances only have a negligible effect on the overall poverty rate, but they tend to decrease the poverty gap and thereby ameliorate the depth of poverty. The estimates suggest that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7–1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of the key results by using 5-year average data and addresses potential endogeneity issues through instrumental variable estimation.
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Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Jha, Shikha; Sugiyarto, Guntur. 2009. Remittances in Asia: Implications for the Fight against Poverty and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1844. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Poverty Analysis
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Extreme Poverty
Economic development
Growth And Poverty
Income Distribution
Demographic Indicators
Social Justice
Price stabilization
Food prices
Price policy
Social change
Social accounting
Inequality of income
Economic growth
Qualilty of Life
Open price system
Price fixing
Price regulation
Consumer price indexes
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