Smooth Operator : Remittances and Fiscal Shocks /

With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has not considered whether this effect varies with the fiscal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beaton, Kimberly
Other Authors: Cevik, Serhan, Yousefi, Seyed Reza
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/165
Online Access:Full text available on IMF