Consumption Effects of Foreign Remittances in Jamaica
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Keywords
Remittances; Two-part fractional response model; Jamaica;All these keywords.
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- O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General
- O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
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