Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?.

This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid inf...

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Համատեղ հեղինակ: International Monetary Fund
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Լեզու:English
Հրապարակվել է: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Շարք:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/067
Առցանց հասանելիություն:Full text available on IMF
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