Folder managed by Andrea Vismara of the Complexity Science Hub. The code collected here analyses the global flows in remittances.
Remittances definition: household income being generated by economic activity in another than the home economy, which subsequently is transferred to or earned on the account of the household in the home economy. As a consequence remittances can be either based upon long-term residence in another country (usually combined with economic activity as migrant worker), or upon short-term work engagements as seasonal worker or upon permanent work as border worker without being resident of the host economy (European Commission).
The data needed for the project is composed of
- the three remittances datasets made available by KNOMAD: country inflows, country outflows, and a bilateral remittances matrix.
- migration stock data from the World Bank
- GDP deflator data from the World Bank
To download the data run the following command in the python terminal:
python data_downloads\\download_all.py