The impact of foreign remittances on the socio-economic conditions of households (A case study of rural areas in Dir Lower, NWFP_
The impact of foreign remittances on the socio-economic conditions of households (A case study of rural areas in Dir Lower, NWFP_
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外国汇款对家庭社会经济状况的影响（西北粮食计划署下迪尔下农村地区的案例研究_
作者：
N. Muhammad;Mushtaq Aḥmad;N. Ahmad;M. Shah;I. Alam;M. Jawad
这项研究审查了海外移民的汇款在加强其留守家庭的能力以防止社会经济生活不舒适方面的作用。2008年，通过滚雪球抽样方法，在迪尔（下）区的四个村庄，即哈吉阿巴德、谢尔哈尼、穆里亚诺班达和塔卡塔克，对100个移民家庭进行了访谈。这项研究的主要结果表明，汇款改善了移民家庭的生活方式，使他们有机会将子女送到标准教育机构，并改变了亲戚/朋友对收款家庭的行为，从而影响了他们的社会地位。接受汇款的家庭产生了不同形式的经济活动，如微型企业，投资于真实的房地产，购买农地等。研究建议，政府和其他有关部门应提供一个安全和有利的环境，移民家庭利用汇款在国家一级。
This study examines the role of remittances of oversees emigrants in strengthening the ability of their left behind families to protect against socio-economic discomforts of life. One hundred emigrants’ families were accessed for interview through snowball sampling method in four villages of Dir (Lower) district i.e. Haji Abad, Sher Khaney, Mulyano Banda and Takatak, in year 2008. The major findings of the study reveal that remittances have impacted the social status of emigrants’ families by improving their life style, furnishing them with the opportunity to send children to standard educational institutions, and changing the behaviour of relatives/ friends towards the recipient families. The recipient families generated different forms of economic activities such as micro level business, investment in real estate, and purchase of agricultural land etc. The study recommends that the government and other concerned departments should provide a secure and conducive environment to the emigrants’ families to utilize remittances at national level.