Sending money home: Are remittances always beneficial to those who stay behind?

Journal of International Development

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 633-644

  Bracking, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; FINANCIAL PROVISION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; PRICE DYNAMICS;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0042701492     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1021     Document Type: Article

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