Remittances and household spending strategies: evidence from the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, 2011–2013.
Globalised labour migration and remittances can help alleviate household poverty and provide supplemental income in many countries. Kyrgyzstan, like other Central Asian countries, has experienced dramatic geopolitical changes, economic reform, and rapid demographic shifts in the post-Soviet-Union er...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 47; no. 13; pp. 3015 - 3037 |
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