Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence

New Sources of Development Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Solimano, Andrés ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Cyclical behaviour; Development finance; Development funding; Developmental impact; External transfers to developing countries; Global trends; International market; Measurement; Motives; Regional trends; Remittance flows; Remittance policies; Remittances by emigrants; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920058962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199278555.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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