Essays about: "monetary remittance"

Found 3 essays containing the words monetary remittance.

1. 1. Banking the unbanked: Financial inclusion and economic sustainable development for women? : Decolonial perspectives on the gendered migration-remittances-development nexus

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Heidi Källoff; [2020]
   Keywords : Remittances; the global remittance trend; financial inclusion; economic democratization; sustainable development; austerity; gender mainstreaming; migration management; transnational business feminism; decoloniality; decolonialism;

   Abstract : Over the last decade, a new trend of Global Remittances has emerged within the international development community, especially a growing interest in women’s migration and remittances, and their potential for poverty reduction and economic growth. Due to the staggering amount of transnational money transfers, migrant remittances have become a central component in multilateral discussions on alternative development financing, and has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). READ MORE

3. 2. REMITTANCES AND CORRUPTION IN MIGRANTS’ COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN Corruption Experience of Remittance Recipients in Latin America and the Caribbean

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hang Nguyen Vu; [2016-09-16]
   Keywords : monetary remittance; social remittance; migration; petty corruption; sending countries; bribe payment; bribe solicitation; multilevel model; particularistic culture; political networks; social networks;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore whether and how (monetary) remittance affects petty corruption in migrants’ countries of origin. Specifically, it investigates whether remittance recipients are more likely to pay bribes than non-recipients. Two arguments are put forward. READ MORE

4. 3. Remittances, Moral Hazard and Monitoring: A Study on the Effects of Microfinance Institutions' Monitoring on Opportunistic Remittance Receivers

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Sara Bivebäck; Nga Nguyen; [2014]
   Keywords : remittances; moral hazard; monitoring; labor supply; microfinance;

   Abstract : The canonical tradeoff between risks and incentives is in this study applied in a new setting: between a migrant and her relatives remaining at home. Receiving monetary remittances (private cash or in kind transfers) from the migrant reduces the risk of income shortfalls, which simultaneously creates disincentives for the receivers at home to work. READ MORE