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Vietnam; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
Vietnam has adopted effective policies and measures to accelerate its economic growth rate and reduce poverty while sustaining economic reform, and trying to achieve goals and targets that are set in the Five-year Socio-economic Development Plan 2001–05. The annual progress report, named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245365
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper focuses on Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The economic sectors have undergone significant restructuring. This restructuring has been concentrated on production capacities, quality and efficiency, thus contributing to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245536
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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