International Migration, Remittances Inflow and Household Welfare: An Intra Village Comparison from Pakistan

Javed, Mohisn; Awan, Masood Sarwar; Waqas, Muhammad

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1199-8

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“…Besides reducing poverty, international remittances enhance the welfare of remittance recipient households. Some previous studies have found a positive relation between remittances and welfare [15,20,[28][29][30]. They found that remittance recipient households spend most amount of remittance received on consumption purposes.…”

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Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2019

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International remittance is now one of talking issues around the world as it has been playing a vital role in socioeconomic development of the developing countries like Bangladesh since last few decades. Thus, the present study explores the impact of international remittances on household poverty and welfare in Bangladesh. To achieve this objective, the study analyses primary data collected from 360 households from Cumilla district of Bangladesh. To find out the impact of remittances on poverty, the study employs the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index. On the other hand, a one way ANOVA test is used to examine the impact of remittances on household welfare. The paper finds that the incidence, depth and severity of poverty among remittance recipient households is quite less than that of remittance non-recipient households. Empirically, the study finds that about 6 percent of remittance recipient households lives below the poverty line while this rate is 48 percent for non-recipient households. The study also finds that the average gross per capita expenditure of remittance receiving households is three times higher than that of non-recipient households which interprets that recipient households enjoy higher level of welfare. Thus, it is found that remittances have significant influence on household welfare. The study recommends nursing international remittances as an important tool in reducing poverty and enhancing welfare.

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Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2019

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“…Cuong and Linh [ 8 ] reported that international remittances increase per capita income and per capita expenditure of the household in Vietnam while it reduces employment of remaining members. Javed, Awan, and Waqas [ 9 ] showed that international migration delivers benefits as an increase in various forms of household expenditures in Pakistan. Wadood and Hossain [ 10 ] reported the remittance-receiving households are better off in terms of consumption expenditure compared to non-receiving ones in Bangladesh.…”

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“…Third, our dataset is longitudinal, which allows us to take an empirical approach to establish a relationship between remittances and household welfare in a more rigorous way, since longitudinal data enables us to correct unobserved factors and address endogeneity using exogenous shocks to households. There have been a variety of studies reporting the positive impact of remittances on household welfare in Vietnam [ 7 , 8 ], Pakistan [ 9 ], Bangladesh [ 10 ], Kenya [ 11 ], Malawi [ 12 ].…”

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Resilience against the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on migration and household welfare in Tajikistan

Shimizutani¹,

Yamada²

2021

PLoS ONE

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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have adverse effects on the economy through damage to migration and remittances. We use a unique monthly household panel dataset that covers the period both before and after the outbreak to examine the impacts of COVID-19 on a variety of household welfare outcomes in Tajikistan, where remittance inflows in recent years have exceeded a quarter of annual GDP. We provide several findings. First, after April 2020, the adverse effects of the pandemic on household welfare were significantly observed and were particularly pronounced in the second quarter of 2020. Second, in contrast to expectation, the pandemic had a sharp but only transitory effect on the stock of migrants working abroad in the spring. Some expected migrants were forced to remain in their home country during the border closures, while some incumbent migrants expecting to return were unable to do so and remained employed in their destination countries. Both departures and returns started to increase again from summer. Employment and remittances of the migrants quickly recovered to levels seen in previous years after a sharp decline in April and May. Third, regression analyses reveal that both migration and remittances have helped to mitigate the adverse economic outcomes at home during the “with-COVID-19” period, suggesting that they served as a form of insurance. Overall, the unfavorable effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were severe and temporary right after the outbreak, but households with migrants were more resilient against the pandemic.

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“…On the other hand, Cuong (2008) found an opposite direction: the impact of international remittances on income is greater than consumption expenditures, meaning that a large proportion of international remittances are used for savings and investment purposes. Javed et al (2017) found that the effect of international remittance on food security is greater than on wealth.…”

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Construction of Household Welfare Index and Welfare Impact of International Remittances in Rural Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2021

Preprint

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This paper mainly focuses on the construction of a household welfare index to examine the welfare impact of international remittances in rural Bangladesh. This paper, in achieving this objective, uses primary data and several methods. This paper constructs a household welfare index newly to measure the level of household welfare. Besides, a linear regression and Chi-square test is used to examine the welfare and poverty impact of international remittances, respectively. Remittance receiving households enjoy the higher level of welfare more than non-recipient households in the study area. Household welfare is augmented by 0.116 if the household is under the shade of international remittances. A significant impact of international remittances on the reduction of household poverty is also found in this study. Therefore, this paper suggests policymakers for utilizing international remittances as a significant tool to enhance household welfare and to reduce household poverty.

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International Migration, Remittances Inflow and Household Welfare: An Intra Village Comparison from Pakistan

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

Resilience against the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on migration and household welfare in Tajikistan

Construction of Household Welfare Index and Welfare Impact of International Remittances in Rural Bangladesh

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