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Samoa; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper on Samoa reports that remittances are the main source of foreign exchange to the Samoan economy. In addition to remittances, travel credits also play an important role in the economy. Official transfers are also significant, and should remain an important source of...

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Determinants of Emigrant Deposits in Cape Verde

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

In the last decade Cape Verde has experienced a strong accumulation of emigrant deposits. These deposits have provided much needed foreign exchange to the country, adding support to the exchange rate peg. This paper studies the long-run determinants of emigrant deposits with respect to risk,...

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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China

Lipschitz, Leslie; Verdier, Geneviève; Rochon, Céline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

wages are sustained by a large reserve army of rural labor which drives internal migration, and (2) domestic capital is …

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Macroeconomics of Migration in New Member States

Bems, Rudolfs; Schellekens, Philip - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS …

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A Theory of Workers' Remittances with An Application to Morocco

Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper provides a model on how altruism, "attachment" to the home country, and portfolio diversification may act as potential motives behind workers' remittances. It shows that the level of workers' remittances depends on how great are their degrees of altruism and "attachment" to their home...

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …

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The Macroeconomics of Remittances; The Case of Tajikistan

Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is likely to be ambiguous. The impact depends on the...

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Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World

Spilimbergo, Antonio; Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981â€“2005, we find that the elasticity of domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a...

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Remittances; Evidence From India

Gupta, Poonam - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

increase in migration and total earnings of the migrants. Remittances are also affected by the economic environment in source …

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

out-migration in SSA. …

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