Microeconomic impact of remittances on household welfare: Evidences from Bangladesh

Wadood, Syed Naimul; Hossain, Mohammad Motaher

doi:10.15208/beh.2017.02

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“…A good number of researchers studied remittances in Bangladesh (Kumar et al, 2018;Ahmed et al, 2018;Hasan and Shakur, 2017;Wadood and Hossain, 2016;Regmi and Paudel, 2016;Haider et al, 2016;Bayes et al, 2015;Hatemi-J and Uddin, 2014;Chowdhury, 2014;Masuduzzaman, 2014;Al-Mukit et al, 2013;Khan and Islam, 2013;Raihan et al, 2009). However, most of these studies are either descriptive or not focusing on the link between remittances and poverty.…”

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The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2019

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This article mainly explores to what extent international remittances alleviate household poverty in Bangladesh. This study uses primary data collected from 216 households and employs multi-methods. Firstly, I measure the level of household poverty through Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index. The article secondly focuses on the impact of remittances on household poverty using a binary logistic regression model. I found that the level of poverty among remittance recipient households is notably lower than households that are not receiving remittances. Similarly, the probability of a household being poor is alleviated by 28.07 per cent if the household receives remittance. It can be suggested that nursing international remittances can be useful for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.

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“…Khan and Islam (2013) showed that a one per cent increase in remittance inflows increases inflation rate by 2.48 per cent in the long run but no effects in the short run. Besides these impacts, remittances have significant impacts on household welfare in Bangladesh as well (Ahmed et al, 2018) and Wadood and Hossain, 2016).…”

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The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2019

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“…International remittances literature is crowded with studies contextualizing Bangladesh like [6,15,[37][38][39][40][41] and its relationship has been explored with numerous economic and household factors using macro-level country data. But unfortunately, its direct linkage with educational and healthcare expenditure of Bangladesh using micro-level data did not catch attention yet.…”

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The Impact of International Remittances on Education and Health in Bangladesh

Kumar¹

2019

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Over last few decades international remittances are playing a vital role in the socio-economic development of the developing countries like Bangladesh. Remittance contributes not only in household level but also in community and national level of a country. Although many studies have been carried out on poverty, growth, inequality, unemployment impact of remittances, impact of international remittances on education and health in Bangladesh has not been studied yet. Therefore, this study explores the impact of international remittances on education and health in Bangladesh. In achieving the objective, the study uses primary data collected from 396 households and applies both statistical and econometric methods. Firstly, the study uses statistical approach to bring to light the core scenario of education and health conditions of the households. Secondly, the study separately applies linear regression model estimated through OLS method to examine the impact of international remittances on education and health. The study finds that international remittances have negative and significant impact on education while international remittances have positive and significant on health. This paper finds that if the households receive remittance, the per capita expenditure on health may be increased by Tk. 4817.39 and the per capita expenditure on education may be decreased by Tk. 1020.67. Therefore, the study suggests government and non-government organizations nursing international remittances to improve households' health.

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“…The rate of utilization remittance for investment purposes is too low that is 1.52 percent. Wadood and Hossain found remittance has a positive impact on consumption expenditure and no impact on education and health [31]. On the other hand, Ahmed et al found that remittances has positive and significant changes on housing condition, sources of drinking water and sanitation facilities, household accessories, education and health status of household members, household economic situation and household expenditure [32].…”

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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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Microeconomic impact of remittances on household welfare: Evidences from Bangladesh

Cited by 40 publications

References 13 publications

The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

The Impact of International Remittances on Education and Health in Bangladesh

Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

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