Altruism and Workers’ Remittances : : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia / / Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Bouhga-Hagbe Jacques
|
| Titolo: |
Altruism and Workers’ Remittances : : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia / / Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe
|
| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (29 p.) |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Jordan |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Altruism and Workers’ Remittances |
| ISBN: | 1-4623-6595-7 |
| 1-4527-5720-8 | |
| 1-282-39161-5 | |
| 9786613820044 | |
| 1-4519-9432-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788519603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/130