Enhancing Economic Growth and Government Revenue Generation in Nigeria: The Role of Diaspora Remittances

Didia, Dal; Tahir, Suleiman

doi:10.1177/00346446211025647

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“…And this can result in substantial economic impact: In Nigeria, remittances, given by ethnic Nigerians in diaspora, constitute a significant source of foreign currency with a $20.9 billion inflow in 2022 (World Bank, 2022). Neither this inflow nor its benefits should be taken for granted, however, as Didia and Tahir (2022) found remittances do not automatically enhance economic growth, with a large portion of remittances going towards consumption and social insurance rather than investment. They recommend that by better understanding the diaspora and earning their trust, remittance behaviour could be improved and channelled towards economic growth.…”

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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

Mast,

Sapena,

Mühlbauer

et al. 2023

Population Space and Place

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Geolocated social media data hold a hitherto untapped potential for exploring the relationship between user mobility and their interests at a large scale. Using geolocated Twitter data from Nigeria, we provide a feasibility study that demonstrates how the linkage of (1) a trajectory analysis of Twitter users' geolocation and (2) natural language processing of Twitter users' text content can reveal information about the interests of migrants. After identifying migrants via a trajectory analysis, we train a language model to automatically detect the topics of the migrants' tweets. Biases of manual labelling are circumvented by learning community‐defined topics from a Nigerian web forum. Results suggest that differences in users' mobility correlate with varying interests in several topics, most notably religion. We find that Twitter data can be a flexible source for exploring the link between users' mobility and interests in large‐scale analyses of urban populations. The joint use of spatial techniques and text analysis enables migration researchers to (a) study migrant perspectives in greater detail than is possible with census data and (b) at a larger scale than is feasible with interviews. Thereby, it provides a valuable complement to interviews, surveys and censuses, and holds a large potential for further research.

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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

Mast,

Sapena,

Mühlbauer

et al. 2023

Population Space and Place

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“…A study by Didia & Tahir (2021) concludes that despite being a large source of foreign exchange in the country, remittance inflow has no long-run impact on total output in Nigeria.…”

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Labour emigration, remittances, and economic development: an empirical analysis

Oyegoke

Amali

2022

JGEB

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There has been a lot of controversy on the effects of labour emigration and remittances on economic growth and development in the sending countries. Some concluded a significant positive impact, while others failed to identify a direct link between labour and remittance inflow, and economic development. This study therefore empirically estimates the effects of international labour emigration and remittances on economic development in Nigeria, using annual time series data for the period 1977-2021. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) is employed to analyse the model. Findings suggest a significant positive effect on economic development in Nigeria. Therefore, we recommend that the government should be more involved in labour emigration by establishing policies that protect migrants in their host countries thereby ensuring their stability for effective productivity.

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Diaspora Economics

Fang

Wells

2023

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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Enhancing Economic Growth and Government Revenue Generation in Nigeria: The Role of Diaspora Remittances

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

Labour emigration, remittances, and economic development: an empirical analysis

Diaspora Economics

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