Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1076-1089

  Combes, Jean Louis ^a   Ebeke, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Consumption instability; Developing countries; Financial development; Remittances; Shocks; Threshold effects

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING WORLD; FINANCIAL MARKET; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; REMITTANCE; THRESHOLD;

EID: 79957960282     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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