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Analysis on macroeconomic determinants of protection in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland, while subject to many caveats, suggests that appreciation of the real exchange rate was the main macroeconomic determinant of trade policy reversals in the 1990s. This suggests that...
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There is ample empirical evidence for developed economies that asset prices contain information about future economic developments. But is this also the case in transition economies? Using a panel of monthly data for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia for the...
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undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants' remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …
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grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques …. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real … and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in the …
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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...
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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 of transmission from remittances to aid. Buoyant remittances could … remittances may dampen donors'' incentive to scale up aid. Concurrently, remittances could be positively associated with aid if …
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-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been accounted for. It focuses on import prices to reflect the vulnerability … and income per capita. On the other hand, while remittances seem to dampen the adverse effect of import food price shocks …
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