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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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We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment … macroeconomic policy. Both private capital inflows and domestic credit exert a positive effect on investment; they also mediate most … of the investment impact of the global price of risk and domestic borrowing costs. Surprisingly, neither greater domestic …
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Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …
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Banks across the Caribbean have lost important Correspondent Banking Relationships (CBRs). The macroeconomic impact has so far been limited, in part because banks either have multiple relationships or have been successful in replacing lost CBRs. However, the cost of services has increased...
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With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries …. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has … impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets. Our …
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. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive … than migrants to other countries-even after accounting for talent during one's teenage years. Third, financing costs are a …
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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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remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and … (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of remittances on economic volatilities. Results suggest that while (i …) large remittances can be stabilizing on average, (ii) high remittance concentration from source countries can aggravate …
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