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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788519603321

Autore

Bouhga-Hagbe Jacques

Titolo

Altruism and Workers’ Remittances : : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia / / Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-6595-7

1-4527-5720-8

1-282-39161-5

9786613820044

1-4519-9432-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (29 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Emigrant remittances - Middle East

Emigrant remittances - Asia, Central

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Remittances

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Trade: General

International economics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Outward remittances

Exchange rates

External position

Service exports

International finance

Emigrant remittances

Exports

Jordan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2006".



Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DETERMINANTS OF WORKERS� REMITTANCES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS""; ""III. EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION""; ""IV. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""APPENDIX""; ""A. Egypt""; ""B. Jordan""; ""C. Morocco""; ""D. Pakistan""; ""E. Tunisia""

Sommario/riassunto

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 external vulnerabilities. This paper argues that "altruism," as a motive to send money home, would contribute to the stability of these flows. Using a simple framework that relates workers' remittances to agricultural GDP, which is used as an indicator of economic "hardship" in the home country, evidence suggests that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia in recent years.