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Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries
EBEKE, Christian; COMBES, Jean-Louis - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in developing countries on a large … panel of developing countries. The four main results are the following: Firstly, remittances significantly reduce household … consumption instability. Secondly, the insurance role played by remittances is highlighted: remittances dampen the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533212
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Remittances and the prevalence of working poor
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - HAL - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605327
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Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - HAL - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924980
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Remittances and the prevalence of working poor.
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003414
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Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor
COMBES, Jean-Louis; EBEKE, Christian; MAUREL, Mathilde - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2011
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876550
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Financial development, threshold effects and convergence in developing and emerging countries
Allegret, Jean-pierre; Azzabi, Sana - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 1899-1921
In this paper, we perform GMM dynamic panel data estimations to test the relationship between financial development and growth. Our dataset is composed of 112 emerging and developing countries over the period 1975-2007. More specifically, we test the presence of financial development threshold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835862
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Threshold relationships among inflation, financial development, and growth
Barnes, Michelle L; Duquette, Nicolas - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 17 (2006), pp. 141-149
This paper tests for and estimates relationships among inflation, financial market development (FMD), and growth. This trivariate relationship changes across a statistically robust inflation threshold of about 14%. Below 14%, the relationship between growth and FMD is positive; above 14%, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493112
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Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth: Does Inflation Matter? Time Series Evidence from the UEMOA Countries
Keho, Yaya - In: International Economic Journal 24 (2010) 3, pp. 343-355
An important issue in the finance and growth literature is whether the strength of the relationship between finance and growth may depend on inflation rate. This paper uses time-series data to examine this evidence for seven African countries. The technique of principal component analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008681198
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Financial Repression, Tax Evasion and Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
Villieu, Patrick; Minea, Alexandru - HAL - 2006
In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793684
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Développement financier, croissance de long terme et effets de seuil
Allegret, Jean-Pierre; Azzabi, Sana - In: Panoeconomicus 59 (2012) 5, pp. 553-581
In this paper, we test the existence of financial development threshold effects, firstly, between financial development and long-term growth, and, secondly, between financial development and long-term GDP. We also ask whether such effects may explain the link financial development -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134524