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Cape Verde: Selected Issues

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This Selected Issues paper examines macroeconomic challenges for a highly tourism-based economy such as Cape Verde. The changing structure of Cape Verde’s balance-of-payments financing calls for a closer look at the volatility of remittances and their role as an absorber of economic shocks. The paper finds that compared with other external inflows, remittances continue to be a reliable source of foreign financing, but they are declining in importance. It also shows that this influence seems to be gradually fading, and remittances are becoming increasingly procyclical.

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  • International Monetary Fund, 2008. "Cape Verde: Selected Issues," IMF Staff Country Reports 2008/243, International Monetary Fund.
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