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Remittances and Quality of Life of Emigrant Families in Kerala
International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention
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Remittances and Quality of Life of Emigrant Families in Kerala
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M.M., RUKSANA.
GANGADHARAN, Dr. K. |
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International migration has an important role in the economic development of every economy.In Kerala, most of the people prefer to emigrate for skilled and unskilled labour to the developed countries to improve the living standards oftheir families.According to Kerala Migration Survey Report, forevery 100 households in the state, there were 29.3 emigrants in 2014and the number of emigrants has increased graduallyover the years, from13.6 lakhs in 1998 to 24.0 lakhs in 2014.Kerala is receiving an increasing amount of money from abroad as workers’ remittances and total remittancesto Kerala in 2014 was estimated to be Rs71,142 crores.Remittances per household were Rs 86,843 in 2014 compared to Rs. 63,315 in 2011 and Rs. 57,227 in2008.The present study is to find out trend and growthof household remittance in Kerala and to analyze the impact of these remittance to the living standards of emigrant families.
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International Scientific Invention Journals
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2016-02-25
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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http://www.ijssei.in/index.php/ijssei/article/view/41
10.23958/ijssei/vol02-i02/03 |
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International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention; Vol 2 No 02 (2016); 295 to 305
2455-6289 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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