Workers' Remittances and the Real Exchange Rate: A Paradox of Gifts

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1407-1417

  Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina ^a   Pozo, Susan ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign aid; Latin American and Caribbean area; Panel data; Real exchange rate; Workers' remittances

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DUTCH DISEASE; FINANCIAL MARKET; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; REAL EXCHANGE RATE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 3242722443     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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