Flipping the page: exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants’ remittances and their living conditions in the UK

Ehwi, Richmond Juvenile; Maslova, Sabina; Asante, Lewis Abedi

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2021.1945915

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“…In addition, remittance flows may reduce child labor while increasing the labor supply of older household members [2]. Finally, remittances may also negatively impact the well-being of senders due to the financial burden placed on working emigrants to remit to home [3].…”

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The widespread impacts of remittance flows

Amuedo‐Dorantes¹,

Pozo²

2023

izawol

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Remittance flows have the potential to greatly improve the livelihoods of receiving households by smoothing their consumption and enabling investments back home. They can facilitate economic stability, improve creditworthiness, and attract investments to promote economic growth and reduce poverty rates for recipient nations. Data limitations need to be overcome in order to best assess the impacts of remittances and to design policies that facilitate the transmission and productive use of inflows. Policy recommendations range from easing capital controls to reforming immigration policy. ELEVATOR PITCHRemittances have risen spectacularly in absolute terms and in relation to traditional sources of foreign exchange, such as export revenues. Remittances can improve the wellbeing of family members left behind and boost growth rates of receiving economies. They can also create a culture of dependency, lowering labor force participation in recipient nations, promoting conspicuous consumption, and accelerating environmental degradation. A more thorough understanding of their impacts can help formulate policies that enable developing economies to harness the most out of these monetary inflows.

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Section: Micro-level Impacts (Individual and Household)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The widespread impacts of remittance flows

Amuedo‐Dorantes¹,

Pozo²

2023

izawol

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“…Despite its complexities, it is interesting to note that the remittance discourse and its linkage to development have amounted to a surge in research works predominantly on cross-panel and country by country analysis. More importantly, most of the findings (see, for instance, Martey and Armah 2020;Ehwi et al 2021;Adams 2011;Peprah et al 2019) have been diverse and enriching for the migration and development discourse in Ghana. However, considering the vast volume of research works so far, it is somewhat startling to see how rarely any attempt to understand why remittance reaches a particular "group" of people is discussed, at least in Ghana's case.…”

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The Dynamics of Remittances Impact: A Mixed-Method Approach to Understand Ghana’s Situation and the Way Forward

Agyei

2021

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Many scholarly articles on remittance have focused on its positive or negative impact on the macro- or microeconomy. Given that trend, remittance is usually analysed without its sociological elements embedded within the migration process. Therefore, this paper employs a bird’s eye view to advance our understanding of the dynamics of remittance within the Ghanaian migration framework. By this, the paper uses a mixed-method approach to shed light on the Ghana case. First, through multiple linear regression, the paper shows that remittance inflow to Ghana is positively related to GDP per capita. Specifically, the evidence indicates that a 1% increase in remittance leads to an approximately 4% increase in the GDP per capita. Second, with the aid of household survey data from Ghana Statistical Service and Ghana’s poverty dimension, the paper shows that while the empirical finding suggests an improvement of the populace’s standard of living, the evidence on the grounds, however, conflicts with such findings. This is because remittance is primarily a private resource and is likely to reach only a few well-off homes in Ghana; hence, it does not consider an effective redistributive dimension. Third, to further elucidate why remittance reaches these few groups, the paper analyses within the Marxist political framework how legal migration to the developed countries has always been an option only for the well-off and middle-class Ghanaians who could afford the cost. With this clear establishment of the remittance dynamics in Ghana, the study proposes plausible suggestions to enhance the redistributive effect of remittance in Ghana. In particular, the study recommends a state-led online app for migrants to send money to Ghana. Notably, the state should champion this agenda because subsidising the transaction fees would make it relatively cheaper for migrants. While this would encourage migrants to use the official means, which undoubtedly is significant for the macroeconomy, the app’s returns could be used in addressing the country’s social inequality gap at the micro-level.

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Flipping the page: exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants’ remittances and their living conditions in the UK

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

The widespread impacts of remittance flows

The widespread impacts of remittance flows

The Dynamics of Remittances Impact: A Mixed-Method Approach to Understand Ghana’s Situation and the Way Forward

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