This paper explores the impact of transnational remittance receipts on state respect for human rights, identifying the latter with the CIRI Index of Physical Integrity Rights which aggregates information on disappearances, extrajudicial killings, political imprisonment, and torture. Based on sample of 106 developing economies considered over the period 1981–2011, we find that remittances have a strong negative impact on state respect for physical integrity rights, the results being robust to alternate specifications and estimation methods. Our results underline the need for caution in evaluating the developmental consequences of remittance inflows, especially on institutional quality.

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This paper develops a very simple model to explain the phenomenon of persistent unemployment even in an economy experiencing high output growth.Unemployment will also grow at a rate identical with other factors and sectors. The result is primarily triggered by pre-fixed minimum wage rate for unskilled workers.To corroborate our claim we have checked it for twelve developing countries and found empirical results quite consistent with theoretical apprehension. In deciding on desired rate of growth in different sectors to mitigate or reduce unemployment history becomes crucial.

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