Remittances and Household Welfare: A Case Study of Bangladesh

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The Impact of International Remittances on Education and Health in Bangladesh

“…The result is in line with McKenzie and Rapoport [27] Antman [28], Lee and Park [29] and Mansoor and Quillin [30]. At the same time, the result violates the result of Abbas et al [42] and Raihan et al [43].…”

“…To estimate the extent, household expenditure on education and healthcare purpose is considered as dependent variable. As the dependent variable is continuous, the study applies a multiple regression model estimated through OLS method which shows a cause and effect relationship between dependent variable and a set of explanatory variables following Abbas et al [42], Raihan et al [43] Banik and Kumar [44] and Kumar [45]. Equation 1 states the relationship as follows:…”

Remittances, Poverty and Welfare: Evidence from Cumilla, Bangladesh

“…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.…”

“…Abbas et al conducted a primary data based study using a binary logistic regression model where they found that one unit increase in remittance receipt decreases the log odds of poverty by 10.6 percent [15]. Some previous studies have also found that remittance reduces poverty significantly [20][21][22][23][24].…”

Impacto de las remesas en el gasto regional de salud en México 2000, 2005 y 2010

“…Tabuga (2007) en su estudio de Filipinas, encontró que los gastos en salud entre otros se ven incrementados por los flujos de remesas. En el estudio Raihan et al (2009) de Bangladesh, el efecto de las remesas en salud y educación es positivo pero insignificante. En un estudio general en México, Airola (2007) por medio de la enigh de 1984 al 2000, encontró el aumento de los gastos de salud como consecuencia de las remesas.…”