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This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...
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This paper examines the theory of Dutch disease and its implications for practical policy questions. Dutch disease is a term that is well-known to economists and development practitioners. But it is also a concept that is often conflated with "resource curse" and misinterpreted as a "disease"...
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This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing … world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging … suggest there is a positive effect of remittances on the current account contemporaneously, but that the lagged effect is … remittances have on the current account. The paper, therefore, asserts that policy makers face trade-offs pertaining to the use of …
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This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions … bilateral remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 87 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. Remittances are … eases access to financial services for migrants and reduces transaction costs, is positively associated with remittances …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … flows, leveraging remittances for improving access to finance of recipient households and countries, improving recruitment …
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forecasting country-level remittance flows in a manner consistent with the medium-term outlook for the global economy. Remittances …
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Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …
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This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in … regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development … economic growth following an increase in remittances, but also that the impact of remittances on growth is positive under a …
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This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor's decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor's...
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