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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825681803321

Autore

Kireyev Alexei

Titolo

The Macroeconomics of Remittances : : The Case of Tajikistan / / Alexei Kireyev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-2560-2

1-4527-3199-3

1-283-51643-8

9786613828880

1-4519-0798-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Emigrant remittances - Tajikistan - Econometric models

Labor market - Tajikistan

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Commercial banks

Depository Institutions

Emigration and Immigration

Emigration and immigration

Exports and Imports

Income economics

Income

International economics

International finance

International Migration

Labor economics

Labor Economics: General

Labor

Labour

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Migration

Migration, immigration & emigration

Mortgages



Remittances

Tajikistan, Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. LABOR MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES IN TAJIKISTAN""; ""III. THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACT OF REMITTANCES""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""V. APPENDIX I. POSSIBLE THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF REMITTANCES""; ""VI. REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is likely to be ambiguous. The impact depends on the structural characteristics of the receiving country, in particular its consumption and investment patterns, and its capacity to manage large financial inflows. As data deficiencies and methodological problems associated with remittances preclude crosscountry empirical investigation, the paper illustrates these findings with data on Tajikistan, where remittances as a share of GDP are among the highest in the world. The paper also evaluates the pros and cons of remittances in a broader political economy context.