What Explains the Price of Remittances? An Examination Across 119 Country Corridors

What Explains the Price of Remittances? An Examination Across 119 Country Corridors

Remittances are a substantial source of external financing for developing countries that influence many aspects of their development. Though research has shown that remittances are both expensive and price sensitive, little is known about what explains their price. Newly gathered data across 119 cou...

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Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Martínez Pería, María Soledad
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
developing countries
foreign direct investment
government policies
Immigrants
infant
infant mortality
International Conference on Migration
level of education
low-income countries
migrant
migrants
migration flows
mortality
number of migrants
remittance
Remittances
rural population
service provider
service providers
socioeconomic factors
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13467

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