Session

Management, Business and Economics

Description

Kosova’s nearly half of the population lives outside of its territory, making its diaspora have an epic impact on Kosova’s development through remittances. Remittances affect Kosova’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through their impact on GDP’s main factor which is consumption. Since remittances constitute nearly 13% of Kosova’s GDP, this research is important because its focus is to understand the effect that Western Europe Countries have on Kosovo through remittances – especially through unemployment and household income.

This research aims to understand the impact of Global Financial Crisis on remittances of Kosovo. This is a quantitative research based on numerical data. Analyzes of this research are done through statistical methods and SPSS Statistics Software.

Keywords:

Kosovo’s Remittances, Financial Crisis, GDP, Western Europe

Session Chair

Besnik Skenderi

Session Co-Chair

Sema Kazazi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-59-2

First Page

89

Last Page

95

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 11:00 AM

End Date

28-10-2017 12:30 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.247

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Business Commons

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The effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Kosovo’s Remittances

Durres, Albania

Kosova’s nearly half of the population lives outside of its territory, making its diaspora have an epic impact on Kosova’s development through remittances. Remittances affect Kosova’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through their impact on GDP’s main factor which is consumption. Since remittances constitute nearly 13% of Kosova’s GDP, this research is important because its focus is to understand the effect that Western Europe Countries have on Kosovo through remittances – especially through unemployment and household income.

This research aims to understand the impact of Global Financial Crisis on remittances of Kosovo. This is a quantitative research based on numerical data. Analyzes of this research are done through statistical methods and SPSS Statistics Software.