Remittances, consumption and investment in Ghana
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Population Policies; Access to Finance; Debt Markets; Remittances;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2008-02-23 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2008-02-23 (Development)
- NEP-MIG-2008-02-23 (Economics of Human Migration)
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