Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of Households in the Kyrgyz Republic

kyzy, Akylai Muktarbek; Seyitov, Tchoro; Jenish, Nurbek

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“…The findings of Muktarbek kyzy, Seyitov, and Jenish (2015) are consistent with studies by Ukueva and Becker (2010), who conclude that remittances increase durable goods consumption, and with Hagedorn, Wang, and Chi (2017), who find that increases in household remittance receipts are correlated with spending smaller share of the household budget on food and housing and a larger share on events and other expenses (such as legal and educational expenses).…”

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“…For instance, Karymshakov, Abdieva, and Sulaymanova (2014) find that international remittances considerably decrease poverty. In terms of specific household outcomes, Muktarbek kyzy, Seyitov, and Jenish (2015) analyze the impact of international migrants' remittances on the expenditure structure of households using the Life in Kyrgyzstan survey for 2010-2012 and demonstrates that remittances increase the share of expenditures on construction, celebrations, and durable goods, but decrease the shares of expenditure on food and public utilities.…”

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Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment in the Kyrgyz Republic

Gao

Kikkawa²,

Kang

2021

SSRN Journal

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Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment in the Kyrgyz Republic

Gao

Kikkawa²,

Kang

2021

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Remittances and household spending strategies: evidence from the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, 2011–2013

Wang

Hagedorn

Chi

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Globalised labour migration and remittances can help alleviate household poverty and provide supplemental income in many countries. Kyrgyzstan, like other Central Asian countries, has experienced dramatic geopolitical changes, economic reform, and rapid demographic shifts in the post-Soviet-Union era. Based on measurements of GDP, it is one of the most remittancedependent countries in the world. This study uses data from the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study collected from 2011 to 2013 to break down household budgets into eight consumption categories as part of a detailed analysis of how varying remittance receipt is related to household spending. We address two methodological concerns: (1) the endogeneity of remittances and (2) population heterogeneity. In so doing, we find remittances have limited effects on household spendingwhile changes in remittances do yield small changes on the budget shares of food and medical expenses, no effects were found on other consumption shares. These results suggest that households in Kyrgyzstan may take remittances as permanent income and proportionally alter consumption shares along with changes in remittances. By focusing on a country whose GDP relies heavily on remittances, the findings increase our understanding of how remittances affect spending at the household level.

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Money Flows

De Vries,

Doyle,

Solaz

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Remittances, the repatriated earnings of emigrant workers, have risen spectacularly in recent decades. They are a crucial lifeline for the households that receive them and one of the largest sources of capital for developing economies, outstripping both aid and foreign direct investment. Money Flows studies how remittances shape the relationship between remittance recipients and the authorities in migrant-sending countries by providing a comprehensive study of the political effects of remittances on the attitudes of their recipients. It argues that far from being an exclusively economic risk-sharing mechanism between poorer, migrant-sending, and richer, migrant-receiving economies, remittances may compromise rudimentary accountability mechanisms in the developing world. Money Flows leverages survey data from Central-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and original focus groups from Kyrgyzstan. It shows how remittances, and fluctuations in their volume, colour recipients’ economic evaluations; shape the burden of corruption; and change how recipients interact with, and view their state, ultimately impacting the approval function of the authorities.

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of Households in the Kyrgyz Republic

Cited by 18 publications

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Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment in the Kyrgyz Republic

Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment in the Kyrgyz Republic

Remittances and household spending strategies: evidence from the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, 2011–2013

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