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Remittances from Migrants: Experience of Vietnamese Households

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2013

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La, Hai
Dean-Leung, Suiwah

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University of California Press

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By analyzingdatafromthethreeVietnamHouseholdLivingStandards Surveysbetween 2002 and 2006, theauthorsfoundthataverylargeproportion of Vietnamesehouseholdsreceivedremittancesduringthoseyearsandthat theseremittancesconstitutedasignificantshareofhouseholdincomes.The majorityofhouseholdsreceivedremittancesfromwithinVietnam,butforthose abletoaccessremittancesfromabroad,theamountswereverymuchlarger. In general,remittancesdoseemtoplayan �insurancerole� forthepoor, cushioninganysuddenfallsinhouseholdincomes.Thereisalsosomeevidence thatpublictransferscancrowdoutprivateremittances,buttheeffectisby no meanscomplete.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29573

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Vietnamese Studies

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Journal article

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10.1525/vs.2012.7.4.10

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