This paper studies the credibility of the currency peg of Cape Verde (CV) by assessing the impact of economic fundamentals, our explanatory variables, on the stochastic properties of Exchange Market Pressure (EMP), the dependent variable, using EGARCH-M models. Our EMP descriptive analysis finds...

While much attention has been given to diasporas, development, and the formal economic sector within the political science discipline, this paper sheds light on the transnational activities among grassroots women who have formed long standing sustainable informal networks for the purpose of...