Crime and Remittance Transfers

Remittance and domestic labor productivity: Evidence from remittance recipient countries

Electronic Invoicing and Remittance

The use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technologies can prove to be a strong, strategic initiative for many businesses. However, to leverage these potential benefits, organizations must be able to transform ineffective operating procedures and explore alternative implementations of EDI. The project reported here illustrates how a major Fortune 500 corporation was able to meet the challeng...

Shsu Economics Working Paper

This article examines the determinants of remittance transfers, specifically focusing on the impact of crimes on remittances. Using the 2003 Quality of Life Survey of Colombia, we find that both domestic and international transfers are negatively affected by crime. That is, because crime may have an adverse effect on household assets and the return to investments in the home community, migrants...

Automatic ( Transference , Translation , Remittance , Shunting )

THE TITLE of this paper is a crude translation, such as a simple machine might prepare, of the title of a Russian paper, Автоматический Перевод. То understand why the machine translation of languages has grown to be the subject, not of science-fiction tales, but of serious scientific investigation, some understanding of the operating principles of the type of machine under consideration is esse...

Remittance income uncertainty and asset accumulation

© C r Abstract While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a limited understanding of how the predictability of these money flows affect their usage by remittance-receiving households. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among recipient households. Thes...