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Altruism and workers' remittances : evidence from selected countries in the Middle East and Central Asia /
Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely stability of remittance flows could be a valuable input to the analysis of their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
International Monetary Fund,
©2006.
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| Colección: | IMF working paper ;
WP/06/130. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely stability of remittance flows could be a valuable input to the analysis of their external vulnerabilities. This paper argues that "altruism," as a motive to send money home, would contribute to the stability of these flows. Using a simple framework that relates workers' remittances to agricultural GDP, which is used as an indicator of economic "hardship" in the home country, evidence suggests that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia in recent years. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (27 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-14). |
| ISBN: | 1282391615 9781282391611 9781451994322 145199432X 1462365957 9781462365951 1452757208 9781452757209 9786613820044 6613820040 |
| ISSN: | 2227-8885 ; |