International Migration, Remittances and COVID-19: Economic Implications and Policy Options for South Asia

Withers, Matt; Henderson, Sophie; Shivakoti, Richa

doi:10.1080/17516234.2021.1880047

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“…The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has infected millions of people across the world with an unprecedented spreading speed in human history ( Withers et al, 2022 ). After several months of suppressing the pandemic inside the country, the Chinese government declared that the domestic spreading of Covid-19 was under control and called various local authorities for the resumption of work and production while preventing importing cases from foreign regions ( State Council Information Office in China, 2020 ).…”

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Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse

Chan

2023

Discourse & Communication

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‘A global community of health for all’ has become a dominant concept in China’s global health governance system. Although this concept has been investigated by several studies in different domains, little attention has been given to its discursive legitimation in China’s media communication from a linguistic perspective. To fill this gap, the present study employs positive discourse analysis to investigate how the aforementioned concept is legitimised via the predominant discourses associated with COVID-19 in state-run Chinese English-language newspapers. The findings show that the Chinese news media attempted to formulate the positive discourses, including cooperation as a win-win solution, people’s lives and well-being as the priority and science as the spirit, though the discourses may not resonate with some countries. The findings shed light on the use of language by the media in promoting official ideologies, projecting China’s national image and improving China’s international relations amid a global health crisis.

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Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse

Chan

2023

Discourse & Communication

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“…As these families were primarily dependent on these remittances, a decline was observed in their income level and, ultimately, in their consumption level as well. Withers, Henderson, and Shivakoti (2021) also explain similar consequences of the "remittance Shock." The study supports our results by concluding that majority of the low-income families depending on income from abroad were badly affected as a result of a decrease in foreign exchange earnings and employment.…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Remittances (A Case Study of Selected Families in Tehsil Batkhela)

Shah¹,

Khan²,

Majeed³

et al. 2022

Int. j. bus. econ. aff.

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COVID-19 has had a severe economic impact on human life all over the world. This pandemic is hurting the world economy.The purpose of this research is to reveal the change in foreign remittances and their impact on income and consumption before and after the pandemic in Tehsil Batkhela, District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The data is taken from three villages Totakan, Faisal Abad, and Srasha, from March 2021 to August 2021. Purposive sampling has been used through which individuals working abroad have been identified. The data were collected from 29 households. Simple regression was used to analyze the data. The result reveals that COVID-19 has an impact on remittances and consumption. The results show that the pandemic has a strong impact on remittances and consumption, and it has reduced the income and consumption of the people working abroad. This study highlights the socio-economic impact on the livelihoods of individuals and their families as a result of a decrease in their income levels due reduction in foreign remittances they depended upon.

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“…The findings suggest a positive relationship between unemployment and remittances, particularly when the link between remittances and gross domestic product is weak, but the relationship grows over time. Bondarenko (2020); Withers, Henderson, and Shivakoti (2021); and Guha, Islam, and Hussain (2021) extensively explored the remittances-unemployment relationship in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. They found that the pandemic significantly affected unemployment, making recipient countries more reliant on nonlabor income such as remittances.…”

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Remittances, Nonlabor Income as a Source of Hysteresis in Unemployment in Colombia, 2010–2020

Cardona-Arenas,

Sierra-Suarez

2023

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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This study seeks to determine the impact of remittances and nonlabor income on the duration of unemployment, and therefore on the hysteresis phenomenon in Colombia for the period between January 2010 and January 2021. The long-term unemployment rate in Colombia (LAPU) is calculated, and a vector autoregressive (VAR) model is subsequently estimated to evaluate the impact of remittances and nonlabor income on the LAPU. The results suggest that the increase in nonlabor income significantly affected LAPU in Colombia in the period analyzed. The growth of remittances instead turned out to positively and significantly impact LAPU only during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This suggests that remittances have become a fundamental income in times of crisis that allow for financing the search for work for a longer period of time, thus increasing the duration of unemployment and generating a hysteresis effect.

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International Migration, Remittances and COVID-19: Economic Implications and Policy Options for South Asia

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse

Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse

The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Remittances (A Case Study of Selected Families in Tehsil Batkhela)

Remittances, Nonlabor Income as a Source of Hysteresis in Unemployment in Colombia, 2010–2020

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