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Increasing the Development Impact of Migrant Remittances (Working Paper)

Working paper 14 Jun 2009 Firms

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  • Increasing the development impact of migrant remittances: A field experiment among Kenyan migrants in the USA

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Isaac Mbiti

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia

Dean Yang

Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan
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