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It is possible to avoid such a challenge by adopting a second approach, which assumes that the decision to remit and level of remittances are made simultaneously.
Second, remittance information should be made more easily and widely available to consumers.
He eased the restrictions on remittances, so more money is making it back to the island, and that may have made the biggest difference so far.
"The fuss the authorities are making over the remittances means that they are recognizing that we don't have other [growing] sources of foreign currency," he told VICE News.
In 2009 remittances were reckoned to make up 9% of Albania's GDP.
As a result of regulatory and enforcement fervor, banks are making little distinction between regulated remittance and illegal hawala.
Remittances are cited as making up around 60%to70%0% of recipient poor households' total income (De Bruyn and Kuddus 2005).
Overall nearly 10% of remittances were used for such purposes.
All this would suggest that remittances are an endogenous variable, making it difficult to extract simple conclusions about the causal effect of remittances on labor force participation just by comparing these two groups.
Most remittances are deposited in cash and withdrawn as cash, but Xoom has managed to persuade almost all its customers to make their transfers from bank accounts (a few use credit cards, which are more expensive for Xoom).
Remittances are rising globally.
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