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Exploring the impact of good governance and innovation on export earnings, clean energy, remittances, and zero carbon emissions in Sub-Saharan African countries

Mindia, Piana Monsur; Qamruzzaman, Md; Farzana, Nusrat - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 14 (2024) 4, pp. 265-284

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Cape Verde : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund - 2005

The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Cape Verde review determinants of emigrant deposits (ED). EDs have provided a substantial source of foreign exchange to the Cape Verdean economy, and have been vital in maintaining the fixed exchange rate. Prospects for growth in Cape Verde...

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What Explains Remittance Fees? Panel Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2022

This paper uses data across 365 corridors to document time and country variation in remittance fees and explore factors predicting variation in remittance fees. We document a general reduction in such fees over the past decade although the goal of fees below 3 percent has not been met yet in...

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Determinants of Remittances : Evidence From tonga

Lin, Hannah Huidan - 2011

This paper analyzes the determinants of remittances to Tonga. The results indicate that macroeconomic conditions in … remitting countries and exchange rate fluctuations influence remittances. In particular, remittances growth falls when the … analysis also finds that the influence of these determinants varies with the recipients of remittances, with remittances to non …

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What Do Remittances Do? : Analyzing the Private Remittance Transmission Mechanism in El Salvador

Cáceres, Luis René - 2006

Family remittances are important for El Salvador''s economy. This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on El … formulated, consisting of real and monetary variables. The results suggest that in, El Salvador, remittances lead to decreases in …. This underscores the need for reorienting economic policy in El Salvador to promote the use of remittances in capital …

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Do Remittances to Latin America Dependon the U.S. Business Cycle?

Gradzka, Ewa - 2007

We use a range of methods and remittance data from 1990 to 2007 to assess the strength and significance of linkages between remittance flows to Latin America and the U.S. business cycle. All of the evidence suggests that remittance flows are relatively insensitive to fluctuations in the U.S....

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Altruism and Workers' Remittances : Evidence From Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia

Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2006

Workers'' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and …'' remittances to agricultural GDP, which is used as an indicator of economic ""hardship"" in the home country, evidence suggests … that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and …

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Kiribati : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund / Asia and Pacific Dept - 2024

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Kiribati : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund / Asia and Pacific Dept - 2023

The Selected Issues paper focuses on climate change in Kiribati. This note summarizes the main ways in which climate change may negatively affect the economy of Kiribati. It then shows how Kiribati may cope with these negative effects by implementing adaptation projects, as well as by...

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Remittances and Social Safety Nets During COVID-19: Evidence From Georgia and the Kyrgyz Republic

Abidi, Nordine - 2023

countries. Our results have important policy implications. Although remittances remained resilient during the pandemic, they …

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