which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains stable while it is the … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid …

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …

different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to …

. The model is estimated for Pakistan and is used to analyze the country’s recent high growth-low inflation experience. In … particular, the contribution that external inflows, in the form of workers’ remittances and concessional lending, may have made …

The flow of workers'' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers'' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker … remittances to Pakistan are agriculture output and the relative yield on investments in the host and home countries …

that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and …Workers'' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and …'' remittances to agricultural GDP, which is used as an indicator of economic ""hardship"" in the home country, evidence suggests …