Sentence examples for spend remittances from inspiring English sources

Farmers lack confidence in property rights, so they spend remittances on housing, not on irrigation.

This result is robust to inclusion of a wide set of covariates and is consistent with a conceptual framework in which migrants have preferences over how recipients spend remittances.

By examining pass rates of the "School Leaving Exam" and receipt of the "School Leaving Certificate" at the district level, we find suggestive evidence that there is a differential in spending remittance income on education based on the source of the remittances.

The second case occurs if, due to liquidity constraints, the migrant is unable to spend enough remittances so as to raise their return to the level of the return to savings, τ.

If sufficient amounts are spent on remittances, their return eventually dominate the return to savings, leading to s=0.

The consumption gap that this investment induces between the origin country and the host country depends on the way x is spent, between remittances and savings: D R (r)+D s (x−r).

In Guatemala, Adams and Cuécuecha (2010) report that households receiving international remittances spend more on education and housing compared to what they would have spent without remittances.

In his study of how remittances impact autocrats' public spending choices, Ahmed (2012) contends that autocrats in countries that receive remittances spend less on welfare (as families privately spend more on it) and more on patronage.

Costaldo and Reilly (2007) find that households receiving external remittances spend more at the margin on durable goods and utilities but less on food as compared to households that receive no remittances.

Medina and Cardona (2010) found that beneficiaries of remittances spend about 10%% more of their total spending on education.

Adams et al. (2008) find that households in Ghana do not spend disproportionately from remittance income on education, food and other products.