Worker remittances and capital flows to developing countries

International Migration

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 89-117

  Buch, Claudia M ^a   Kuckulenz, Anja ^b  

^a University of Tuebingen and IAW Tuebingen   (Germany)

^b ZEW Mannheim ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MACROECONOMICS; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; POPULATION MIGRATION;

EID: 77956585897     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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