Do Workers' Remittances Reduce the Probability of Current Account Reversals?

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1821-1838

  Bugamelli, Matteo ^a   Paternò, Francesco ^a  

^a BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

current account reversals; international reserves; workers' remittances

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; PROBABILITY; REMITTANCE; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 70449116022     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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