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The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country
Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881574
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Macroeconomic and fiscal challenges faced by the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region
Dąbrowski, Marek - 2014
The current fiscal imbalances and fragilities in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMC) are the result of decades of instability, but have become more visible since 2008, when a combination of adverse economic and political shocks (the global and European financial crises, Arab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337694
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Remittances and Public Finances : Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks
Asatryan, Zareh - 2016
We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax …-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find … that remittances have a large positive effect on VAT revenues but no effect on income-tax revenues. This suggests that …
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Imported Food Price Shocks and Socio-Political Instability : Do Fiscal Policy and Remittances Matter?
Meyimdjui, Carine - 2021
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252035
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The Morocco Policy Analysis model : theoretical framework and policy scenarios
Achour, Aya; Bulíř, Aleš; Chafik, Omar; Remo, Adam - 2021
The Morocco Policy Analysis model (MOPAM) was created in the Bank Al-Maghrib to simulate the impact of external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613662
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COVID-19 and the U.S. Fiscal Imbalance
Miron, Jeffrey - 2021
Policymakers must do something to slow the growing debt burden or else face a major fiscal meltdown. Proposals such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal would only make the looming fiscal crisis worse
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248991
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Modern pandemics : recession and recovery
Ma, Chang; Rogers, John H.; Zhou, Sili - 2020
We examine the immediate effects and bounce-back from six modern health crises: 1968 Flu, SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), and Zika (2016). Time-series models for a large cross-section of countries indicate that real GDP growth falls by around three percentage points in...
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The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden : don't lockdown
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2023
The coronavirus pandemic triggered strong political action across Europe. Mandatory restrictions to increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390569
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UK economic outlook : shortages and fiscal tightening threaten economic recovery from covid-19
Lenoël, Cyrille; Macqueen, Rory; Mortimer-Lee, Paul - In: National Institute economic review : journal of the … 258 (2021), pp. 6-32
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