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

Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely stability of remittance flows could be a valuable input to the analysis of their...

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Hlavní autor: Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/130
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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