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transmitting remittances and reduces dollarization. Given the size and importance of remittances in Tajikistan, improving financial …The paper uses a unique survey of remittance-receiving individuals from Tajikistan to study the impact of policy … transferring remittances and reduce reliance on foreign exchange for transaction purposes. This is likely to improve bank …
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data on Tajikistan, where remittances as a share of GDP are among the highest in the world. The paper also evaluates the …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 …
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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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The Chinese government has recently focused on the need to increase consumption to rebalance the economy. A widely held view is that despite China''s remarkably high growth, the share of consumption in total expenditure has been low and declining due to high and rising saving rate of Chinese...
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This paper gauges the key determinants of China''s private consumption in relation to GDP using data on the Chinese economy and evidence from other countries'' experiences. The results suggest there is nothing ""special"" about consumption in China. Rather, the challenge is to explain why the...
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This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. The results, based on micro data from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, indicate that overall income inequality increased during the...
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This paper attempts to explain short- and long-term dynamics of-and forecast-inflation in Tajikistan using the Vector …
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, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan since the onset of the transition rendered their traditional …
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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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