TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beaton,Kimberly
AU  - Cerovic,Svetlana
AU  - Galdamez,Misael
AU  - Hadzi-Vaskov,Metodij
AU  - Koczan,Zsoka
AU  - Lissovolik,Bogdan
AU  - Loyola,Franz
AU  - Martijn,Jan Kee
AU  - Ustyugova,Yulia
AU  - Wong,Joyce
TI  - Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean
T2  - IMF Working Papers
SN  - 1484303644 :
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Economic Growth
KW  - imf
KW  - Economic Stabilization
KW  - Emigration And Immigration
KW  - International Migration
KW  - Remittances
KW  - Antigua And Barbuda
KW  - Bahamas, The
KW  - Barbados
KW  - Belize
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - Costa Rica
KW  - Dominica
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - El Salvador
KW  - Grenada
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Honduras
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Nicaragua
KW  - Panama
KW  - Saint Kitts And Nevis
KW  - Saint Lucia
KW  - Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
KW  - Trinidad And Tobago
N2  - Outward migration has been an important phenomenon for countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), particularly those in Central America and the Caribbean. This paper examines recent trends in outward migration from and remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the home country, the negative impact from emigration on labor resources and productivity seems to outweigh growth gains from remittances, notably for the Caribbean. However, given emigration, remittance flows play key financing and stabilizing roles in Central America and the Caribbean. They facilitate private consumption smoothing, support financial sector stability and fiscal revenues, and help reduce poverty and inequality, without strong evidence for harmful competitiveness effects through shifts in the real exchange rate
UR  - http://elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF001/24335-9781484303641/24335-9781484303641/24335-9781484303641.xml
UR  - http://www.imfbookstore.org/IMFORG/9781484303641
ER  -