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HEAT! A Bank Health Assessment Tool
Ong, Li L.; Jeasakul, Phakawa; Kwoh, Sarah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Developments during the global financial crisis have highlighted the importance of differentiating across financial systems and institutions. Assessments of financial stability have increasingly considered the characteristics of individual banks within a financial system, as well as those with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142011
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Bangladesh; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the surprising strength of remittances in Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia and the Philippines in 2009. The empirical analysis suggests that the continued strong growth of remittances in these countries is related to the resilience of non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245440
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Emigration and Brain Drain; Evidence From the Caribbean
Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … in 2002. Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248304
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Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? T+L3886he Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows
Ilahi, Nadeem; Shendy, Riham - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263780
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Business Cycles and Workers' Remittances; How Do Migrant Workers Respond to Cyclical Movements of GDP At Home?
Sayan, Serdar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries since migrant workers are expected to remit more during down cycles of economic activity back home. Yet, how much to remit is a complex decision involving other factors, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263962
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Regional Convergence and the Role of Federal Transfers in Canada
Swagel, Phillip; Dunaway, Steven Vincent; Kaufman, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
significant negative effect on output convergence?by discouraging migration within Canada?the Equalization transfers may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264150
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A Model of Multiple Equilibria in Geographic Labor Mobility
Ubeda, Luis; Spilimbergo, Antonio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
migration patterns in response to local economic shocks. This approach explains the different behaviors of workers in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264165
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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654140
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Remittances in Pakistan; Why have they gone up, and why Aren't they coming down?
Sun, Yan; Kock, Udo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293774
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Do Remittances Reduce Aid Dependency?
Goff, Maelan Le; Kpodar, Kangni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and how this relationship varies depending on the channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369450