Despina Tumanoska
Biographic Data
| ID | 832092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Despina Tumanoska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Despina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tumanoska |
| SIGNATURE | TUMANOSKA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic Research & Policy Institute Skopje |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Light on the Remittances‐Poverty‐Health Nexus in Macedonia
Macedonia receives about 10 per cent of GDP as cash remittances per year while a third of the population faces poverty. The study aims to investigate whether remittances improve the poverty and health of individual remittance‐receivers in Macedonia. To that end, we rely on the 2008 Remittances’ Survey and a sequential structural model linking remittances to social indicators. We find that remittances have a significant effect oto consumption, in …
The Size and Effects of Emigration and Remittances in the Western Balkans. A Forecasting Based on a Delphi Process
This paper aims at forecasting the size and effects of remittances and emigration in Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo, using a qualitative forecasting method, a Delphi questionnaire. The authors examined consensus building within and between two groups of respondents: ten experts and twenty remittance receivers per country, in three subsequent rounds-two on the same group and a third cross-round. Consensual results suggest that remittances …
Remittances as a Shield to Vulnerable Households in Macedonia
The objective of this article is to investigate whether remittances sent to Macedonia have a role to play for shielding vulnerable households, by highlighting the importance of a strictly exogenous instrument in an IV context. Results suggest that remittance‐receiving households have, on average, a 20.1 per cent lower vulnerability than non‐receiving ones. However, if one has a reasonable belief that vulnerability and the instrument are determine…
The Size and Effects of Emigration and Remittances in the Western Balkans. A Forecasting Based on a Delphi Process
This paper aims at forecasting the size and effects of remittances and emigration in Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo, using a qualitative forecasting method, a Delphi questionnaire. The authors examined consensus building within and between two groups of respondents: ten experts and twenty remittance receivers per country, in three subsequent rounds-two on the same group and a third cross-round. Consensual results suggest that remittances …
Remittances as a Shield to Vulnerable Households in Macedonia
The objective of this article is to investigate whether remittances sent to Macedonia have a role to play for shielding vulnerable households, by highlighting the importance of a strictly exogenous instrument in an IV context. Results suggest that remittance‐receiving households have, on average, a 20.1 per cent lower vulnerability than non‐receiving ones. However, if one has a reasonable belief that vulnerability and the instrument are determine…
Remittances as a Shield to Vulnerable Households in Macedonia
The objective of this article is to investigate whether remittances sent to Macedonia have a role to play for shielding vulnerable households, by highlighting the importance of a strictly exogenous instrument in an IV context. Results suggest that remittance‐receiving households have, on average, a 20.1 per cent lower vulnerability than non‐receiving ones. However, if one has a reasonable belief that vulnerability and the instrument are determine…
New Light on the Remittances‐Poverty‐Health Nexus in Macedonia
Macedonia receives about 10 per cent of GDP as cash remittances per year while a third of the population faces poverty. The study aims to investigate whether remittances improve the poverty and health of individual remittance‐receivers in Macedonia. To that end, we rely on the 2008 Remittances’ Survey and a sequential structural model linking remittances to social indicators. We find that remittances have a significant effect oto consumption, in …
The Size and Effects of Emigration and Remittances in the Western Balkans. A Forecasting Based on a Delphi Process
This paper aims at forecasting the size and effects of remittances and emigration in Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo, using a qualitative forecasting method, a Delphi questionnaire. The authors examined consensus building within and between two groups of respondents: ten experts and twenty remittance receivers per country, in three subsequent rounds-two on the same group and a third cross-round. Consensual results suggest that remittances …
Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Remittance (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 work) · Cash (1 work)