The Impact of Remittances on Economic Activity : The Importance of Sectoral Linkages /

We propose a simple macroeconomic model with input-output sectoral linkages based on Acemoglu and others (2016) to quantify how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household's remittances propagates through the network of input-output linkages in Sub-Saharan African countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perez-Saiz, Hector
Other Authors: Bari, Mounir, Dridi, Jemma, Gursoy, Tunc
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/175
Online Access:Full text available on IMF