Fiscal Sustainability in Remittance-Dependent Economies /

We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio can be modified to create a more accurate representation of debt sustainability for a country that receives significant remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of rem...

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Autor Principal: Chami, Ralph
Outros autores: Abdih, Yasser, Gapen, Michael, Mati, Amine
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/190
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF