Remittances and Economic Growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin American-Caribbean Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Analysis
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- Christian Nsiah & Bichaka Fayissa, 2013. "Remittances and economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin American-Caribbean countries: a panel unit root and panel cointegration analysis," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 37(3), pages 424-441, July.
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Keywords
Workers’ Remittances; Economic Growth; Unit-Root tests; Error Correction Model; PFMOLS; Panel Data; Africa; Asia; Latin America/Caribbean;JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2011-06-11 (Africa)
- NEP-FDG-2011-06-11 (Financial Development & Growth)
- NEP-MAC-2011-06-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MIG-2011-06-11 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SEA-2011-06-11 (South East Asia)
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