The Impact of International Remittances on Child Outcomes and Household Expenditures in Nepal

Nepal, Apsara Karki

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1107045

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“…This is because of lack of technical knowledge, large start-up cost (NRs. 55,000, which is 28% of total annual household income), limited subsidies (only 45% of the households received it in the sample) and lack of labour in the communities to construct ponds due to massive out-migration of adult population for better job opportunity (Karki Nepal, 2016). Additionally, in these communities, farming is not commercialized and most of the farmers seem to be risk averse and do not want to shift from cereal-based farming systems to high-value crops due to production and market risks.…”

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Rainwater Harvesting and Rural Livelihoods in Nepal

Kattel

Nepal

2021

Climate Change and Community Resilience

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Springs are drying and rainfall patterns are changing in the Himalayas, resulting in water scarcityfor agriculture. We examine the adoption of rainwater harvesting, a technology that has been recently re-designed and re-introduced to farmers in Nepal, as a climate change adaptation strategy in mountain farming. Using farm household surveys, we examine the impact of the adoption of rainwater harvestingon farm income and profitability. The adoption of the technology is mostly driven by external support such as farmers training that more than tripled household agricultural and livestock income. With incremental annual benefits of US$700 on average per adopter, this technology is economically viable from a household perspective. Adopters benefit from an increased supply of irrigation water during the dry season, which allows them to diversify their crops from subsistence cereal production to commercial high-value vegetables. Our analysis suggests that if 10% of households in an average rainfed district receive farming-related training, the net benefits in the district would be approximately US$1.3 million per year from the adoption of rain water harvesting technology. Given climatic and weather-related uncertainties faced by rainfed agriculture in the hills of Nepal, this technology is potentially a very useful climate change adaptation strategy for community resilience in the hills of Nepal.

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Rainwater Harvesting and Rural Livelihoods in Nepal

Kattel

Nepal

2021

Climate Change and Community Resilience

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“…In light of this, many studies have investigated the impact of remittances on key macroeconomic variables such as: economic growth, investment, education, poverty, household consumption and education expenditures. Examples include but are not limited to Adams and Page (2005), Acosta et al (2008), Giuliano and Ruiz-Arranz (2009), Anyanwu and Erhijakpor (2010), Adams and Cuecuecha (2010, 2013), Nyamongo et al (2012), Imai et al (2014), Salahuddin and Gow (2015), Nwaogu and Ryan (2015), Kratou and Gazdar (2016), Karki Nepal (2016), Démurger and Wang (2016), Mahapatro et al (2017), Masron and Subramaniam (2018), Eggoh, et al (2019), Askarov and Doucouliagos (2020), and Cao and Kang (2020). These studies show that remittances boost economic growth and domestic investment, contribute to poverty alleviation, reduce income disparity, and increase household education and consumption expenditures.…”

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The Nexus Between Remittance Inflows and Financial Development in India: Substitutes or Complements?

Deheri

2022

The Indian Economic Journal

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This article investigates the relationship between remittance inflows and financial development in India from 1980 to 2018. The study employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Vector Error Correction (VEC) models to capture the short and long-run dynamics. In addition, the impulse response function (IRF) and forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD) analysis were utilised to understand the dynamic reaction of financial development to a given shock to remittance inflows and other variables. The results of the ARDL model reveal that remittances negatively influence financial development in the short run, while they positively influence it in the long run. The IRF analysis shows that financial development responds positively to one standard positive shock to remittance inflows. The FEVD analysis further reveals that shocks to remittance inflows explain around 30% to 32% of the total variation in financial development. From a policy standpoint, the findings suggest that well-framed policies should be formulated and implemented to encourage more remittance flows through formal channels. It will boost financial development, economic growth and also increase the other developmental effects of remittances on the economy. JEL Codes: C32, F22, F37

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“…Since agriculture in Nepal is mainly based on subsistence farming (Morton 2007) and is highly seasonal in the absence of yearround irrigation, labour shortages can occur during peak seasons and negatively affect agricultural output. When remittances relax farming households' cash constraints, families may simply choose to reduce farming activities, keep farmland uncultivated (that is, fallow) and purchase some or all of their food (Karki Nepal 2016).…”

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International labour migration, farmland fallowing, livelihood diversification and technology adoption in Nepal

Nepal

Bluffstone

2023

International Labour Review

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Temporary international labour migration from rural areas of low‐income countries is an important international phenomenon, which causes agricultural labour to be diverted from farming to other activities. In labour‐intensive agricultural systems, loss of labour can lead to an increase in the opportunity cost of farm labour, which can create incentives to change the mix of livelihood strategies, farm inputs and investments. At the same time, short‐term international migration may generate remittances, which can finance agricultural intensification and business investments. Using nationally representative data from Nepal, combined with empirical methods that allow causal inference, we investigate the effect of labour out‐migration on farmland fallowing, adoption of agricultural‐intensification technologies and livelihood diversification. We find that households with international migrants are over 50% more likely (based on PSM estimates) to have fallow land, compared with households without migrants. The result is robust to alternative specifications and estimation techniques. We also find that temporary international migration promotes adoption of some technologies that intensify agriculture and causes rural households to diversify their livelihoods. Land fallowing may increase food insecurity, while agricultural intensification may improve it, with uncertain net effect. We offer some indicative results on the effect of labour out‐migration on food insecurity, especially in the remote rural areas.

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The Impact of International Remittances on Child Outcomes and Household Expenditures in Nepal

Cited by 26 publications

References 32 publications

Rainwater Harvesting and Rural Livelihoods in Nepal

Rainwater Harvesting and Rural Livelihoods in Nepal

The Nexus Between Remittance Inflows and Financial Development in India: Substitutes or Complements?

International labour migration, farmland fallowing, livelihood diversification and technology adoption in Nepal

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