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Remittances for Growth: Initiatives for Remitters and Remittances

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This paper argues that by some monetary and fiscal reforms, the investable part of remittances could be diverted to labour intensive and development projects, creating hundreds of thousands employment opportunities and provides an outline of such reforms.

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  • Atiq Rehman, 2017. "Remittances for Growth: Initiatives for Remitters and Remittances," Working Papers id:12183, eSocialSciences.
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