Impact of Remittances on Household Income, Asset and Human Capital: Evidence from Sri Lanka

This paper explores the developmental impacts of international remittance income on the recipient households. The empirical analysis proceeds in two parts. In the first part, we show that remittance income largely accrues to the families belonging to the bottom quintiles of the income distribution h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: De, Prabal K., Ratha, Dilip
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13368