Well-being effect of international migration and remittance on human and gender development in South Asian countries.

Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science

Developing Countries* ; Emigration and Immigration*; Humans ; Demography ; Population Dynamics ; Cross-Sectional Studies

This study investigates the well-being effect of international migration and remittance on human and gender development in selected South Asian countries. The study has adopted panel regression analysis using secondary data from the World Development Indicators and United Nations Development Programme. This database contains information on seven South Asian countries from 1995 to 2020. The study simultaneously applied the Levin-Lin-Chu, Breitung and IM-Pesaran unit root tests to check the stationarity of data. After satisfying the condition, econometric models such as Fixed and Random Effects were executed. Pesaran's test of cross-sectional independence, the Westerlund test for cointegration and VIF tests were performed in order to check the robustness of the results. As a post-diagnostic tool, the Hausman test suggests that the Fixed Effect models are appropriate for each estimation. The results demonstrate that personal remittance positively and significantly affects human and gender development. Similarly, international migration significantly influences human development while negatively affecting gender development. The study suggests that these countries should prioritize attaining higher remittances by sending more international migrants. Similarly, the provision of cheaper formal channels for remitting money and giving incentives can be effective for higher remittance inflow. Moreover, negotiation at the government-to-government level can effectively expand the international labour market of the selected countries.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Nasrin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)

PLoS One. 2016 Oct 3;11(10):e0163345. (PMID: 27695042)
Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jan;74(2):135-42. (PMID: 22169626)
J Popul Res (Canberra). 2008 Oct;25(3):337-355. (PMID: 20694050)
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct;28(37):52418-52430. (PMID: 34008066)
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 May;28(18):22944-22956. (PMID: 33432413)
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr;28(14):17865-17877. (PMID: 33400110)
J Dev Econ. 1998 Apr;55(2):307-31. (PMID: 12293843)
Int Migr Rev. 2010 Mar;44(1):227-264. (PMID: 26900199)

Date Created: 20240418 Date Completed: 20240422 Latest Revision: 20240425

20250114

PMC11025888

10.1371/journal.pone.0300597

38635690