scholarly journals The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth in Arab Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Habib Ouni ◽  
Hela Miniaoui

<p><em>The potential role that workers’ remittances are likely to play in promoting economic growth, especially in Arab countries, is currently attracting considerable attention. </em><em>These remittances have an impact on the remitting economies as well. </em><em>The Gulf region is considered one of the top sending countries of migrant remittances. In this study, empirical analysis is carried out with panel techniques using data over the last three decades for six Arab countries. Our results show that migrant remittances have a positive and significant impact on economic growth. This relationship is also significant when we use dynamic panel data. An indirect effect of remittances on economic growth is pointed out especially via the investment and the household final consumption expenditure channels. </em></p><p><em>Policymakers in Arab countries should take appropriate policy actions to increase the outflow of workers. Developed capital markets, as well as a sound macroeconomic policy environment, would provide incentives for sustainable remittances transfers.</em></p>

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Zelin Nurfadia Sidik ◽  
Noer Azam Achsani ◽  
Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu

Financial inclusion is designed to increase the opportunities and society participation in the formal financial institution, especially for unbanked people. Moreover, financial inclusion is one of strategy inclusive economic growth. However, financial inclusion may lead an ineffectiveness of monetary policy. It is because financial inclusion can affect the sensitivity of interest rate, and it could cause instability demand for money. Therefore, the research aims to analyze the impact of financial inclusion on demand for money, reserve money (M0), in 36 countries for the period 2004 to 2014. The method that used is Dynamic Panel Approach. The result shows that financial inclusion stimulates the increase of demand for reserve money (M0) in developed countries. In the other hand, the increasing of financial inclusion could decrease the demand for reserve money (M0) in developing countries.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i2.6838


Author(s):  
Fred Olayele ◽  
Kwok Soo

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of economic diversity and the resource curse on economic growth. We use dynamic panel data models on data on Canadian and US sub-national jurisdictions. We find evidence for a positive relationship between diversity and growth. Based on the Krugman Specialization Index, our analysis shows that the required threshold for not having the resource curse is 0.209. Above this threshold, the marginal contribution of natural resources to economic growth is lower for a more diversified regional economy than a less diversified one. We highlight the policy implications of these findings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-259
Author(s):  
Yidan Li

As a general technology, the Internet promotes economic growth in various forms. We apply a dynamic panel data approach to measure the impact of the Internet on the gross domestic product (GDP) using data from 65 countries in the Belt and Road Region during the period 1996–2014. The results show that the Internet has a positive and statistically significant effect on the economic growth. These effects strengthen along with the development of the Internet. Many factors such as capital, labor force, technology, industrial structure, international trade, and economic level are essential to explain the differences in the influence of the Internet on the economic growth among the Belt and Road countries. With R-type factor analysis, two factor components can summarize above indicators: one represents the level of economic development and the other represents the level of intensification of the economic development mode. According to the different national situations, the BRI countries must adopt various strategies to actively promote the development of their information industry, and jointly develop the “Digital Silk Road.”


Author(s):  
Amade Peter ◽  
Ibrahim H. Bakari

This study examines the impact of population growth on the economic growth of African countries using panel data approach from 1980 -2015. The impact of population growth on economic growth is still largely controversial at national and regional levels. The study used annual secondary data of fifty three (53) African countries sourced from the World Development Indicators database. Data were collected for economic growth, proxied by GDP, population growth, fertility rate, crude death rate and inflation rate. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, as well as dynamic panel models of difference and system GMM. The results of the difference and system GMM suggest that population growth exerts a positive impact on economic growth of Africa while fertility has a negative impact on economic growth of Africa. The paper concludes and recommends that population growth impacts positively on economic growth and thus African countries should adopt and implement pragmatic policy measures that will enhance the productivity of its population so as to reap more demographic dividends.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Xiaorong Zou ◽  
Long Sha

China’s social security expenditure has rapidly grown during the past decade, and concerns about the impact of social security on productivity and sustained economic growth have attracted attention. Based on Chinese provincial panel data over the period 2007–2016, a threshold model analysis found that the impact of social security on productivity has a “double threshold” on human capital. Using dynamic panel data models and system General Moment Method estimators also found the existence of this threshold effect: When the human capital level is low or high, social security is favorable for sustained economic growth. However, if the human capital level is at the intermediate level, the function of social security is weak. The main conclusions were still valid after we examined the robustness of our results with several methods.


2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 3207-3210
Author(s):  
Yue Xi Liu ◽  
Zhen Bo Zhang

To explore the impact of urbanization and economic growth on the development of circulation industry, this paper uses GMM method to estimate dynamic panel data model, based on panel data at provincial-level from 2001 to 2010 in China, after testing the endogeneity of urbanization and economic growth. The findings indicate that regional economic development, labor input and fixed investment has significant positive effect on output of circulation, while lagged output of circulation and level of urbanization has no significant effect on it.


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