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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932944
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Fiscal Sustainability in Remittance-Dependent Economies
Chami, Ralph; Abdih, Yasser; Mati, Amine; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528636
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Cyclical Patterns in Government Health Expenditures Between 1995 and 2010
Velenyi, Edit V.; Smitz, Marc F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829327
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Credit Quality in Developing Economies: Remittances to the Rescue?
Ebeke, Christian; Loko, Boileau; Viseth, Arina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper analyzes the link between remittances inflows and nonperforming loans (NPLs) in a large sample of developing … indicate a stronger marginal impact of remittances in a context of high macroeconomic instability, suggesting a significant … effect of remittances on the likelihood of the private sector’s credit default during shocks. These results hold even after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142165
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Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? T+L3886he Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows
Ilahi, Nadeem; Shendy, Riham - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in...
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Trade–emigration Nexus: evidence from Bangladesh
Rahman, Matiur; Mustafa, Muhammad - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 3 (2010) 4, pp. 379-389
accelerate economic development and to improve import capacity by benefiting from remittances. The empirical results show both … inferences are drawn for imports being influenced by concomitant remittances of emigration and real GDP of Bangladesh. Bangladesh …
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El Salvador; Selected Issues: Background Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Selected Issues paper presents background notes on El Salvador’s economic growth, national savings, and implications of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA). The paper describes possible factors behind sluggish growth in El Salvador in recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768488
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Union of the Comoros; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The dominant role of remittances in Comoros’s economy presents policymakers with important challenges and …
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Worker’s Remittances and GDP Growth in Pakistan
Hussain, Rashid; Anjum, Ghulam Abbas - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 4 (2014) 2, pp. 376-381
The worker’s remittances are considering second largest source of finance in developing countries after FDI. Worker …’s remittances and GDP growth has analyzed for Pakistan for the period from 1973 to 2011. The Generalized method of moments (GMM) has …’s remittances are positive as well as significant with GDP growth and also playing an active role in Pakistan economy. Impact of …
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A DSGE-RBC Approach to Measuring Impacts of Wealth Transfers
Annen, Kurt; Batu, Michael; Kosempel, Stephen - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014
In this paper we quantify the impact of wealth transfers such as remittances and foreign aid using a DSGE-RBC model. We …
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