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Remittances and Income Inequality in Africa: Financial Development Thresholds for Economic Policy

Ofori, Isaac K.; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Dossou, Marcel A.; … - 2022

The study employs macrodata on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including … evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …'s financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis …

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Effect of Economic Uncertainty on Remittances Flows from Developed Countries

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2023

This article has investigated the effect of economic uncertainty on the remittances sent by migrants residing in … term concerns. It has revealed that economic uncertainty has deleterious effects on remittances outflows from developed … remittances inflows if the current fragmentation of the world were to become protracted, and result in higher barriers to the …

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Funders-of-Last-Resort: Legal Issues Involved in Using Central Bank Balance Sheets to Bolster Economic Growth

Michael, Bryane; Dalko, Viktoria - 2017

What role does unconventional monetary policy - and particularly unconventional policies like private asset purchases under a quantitative easing or lender of last resort scheme - play in influencing economic growth directly? Emerging and developing countries' central banks could contribute to...

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Monetary System of Georgia in XI-XII centuries and its Effect on Economic Activity

Abuselidze, George - 2018

This works covers peculiarities of formation of Georgian monetary system in XI-XII centuries and their effect on the international financial and economic relations. In this works we have researched the matters of formation of monetary policy of feudal age and their effect on development of...

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Central Bank Capital as an Instrument of Monetary Policy

Hampl, Mojmir; Havranek, Tomas - 2018

We examine the use of central bank capital as an unconventional monetary policy tool. In this setting, a central bank employs digital currency to transfer digital cash to each household, thus supporting consumption directly when needed. The asset side of the central bank’s balance sheet...

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Migrant communities in Moscow: Their origins, functionality, and maintenance mechanisms

Varshaver, Evgeni; Rocheva, Anna - 2014

This text presents the results of a study in which we have sought answers to questions of: what kinds of migrant communities exist in Moscow, how they arise and function, what types of people they unite, and how they are structured. Due to the peculiar circumstances encountered by migrants in...

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The Theory of Interhybridity: Socio-political Dimensions and Migration

Aliu, Armando - 2013

regulations, remittances, asylum and migration as an aggregate process). The convergence/divergence of EU member states …

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Migration, Unemployment, and Over-qualification: A Specific Factors-Model Approach

Muysken, Joan; Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labour market in a specific-factors-two-sector model with heterogeneous labour (low, medium, and high skill) and price- and wage-setting behaviour. The low- and medium-skilled labour markets are...

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Exchange Rate Pass-through in Russia

Ponomarev, Yuri; Trunin, Pavel V.; Uljukaev, Aleksej V. - 2014

The article provides estimates of short-run and medium-run exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices in Russia during the period of 2000–2012 using vector error correction model. Exchange rate pass-through asymmetry estimates, its assessments on different sub-periods and exchange rate...

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The Determinants of Australian Exchange Rate: A Time Series Analysis

Atif, Syed Muhammad; Sauytbekova, Moldir; Macdonald, James - 2012

The paper analyzes Australian exchange rate and its determinants by providing an insight into the economic and non-economic factors. By drawing a comparison between quarterly and annual data over the period of 1975 to 2012, it is suggested that Australia’s trade components and macroeconomic...

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