Pacific flows: The fluidity of remittances in the Cook Islands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-44

  Marsters, Evelyn ^a   Lewis, Nick ^a   Friesen, Wardlow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cook Islands; MIRAB; Remittances

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MICROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMITTANCE;

COOK ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 33746497300     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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