The economic significance of migration and remittances in Tuvalu

Title
The economic significance of migration and remittances in Tuvalu
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Boland, Stephen
Dollery, Brian Edward
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Asia Pacific Press
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:3730
Abstract
The observed importance of migration (MI), remittances (R), aid (A) and bureaucracy (B) to Small Island States (SIS) in the Pacific has led to the development of the MIRAB model to explain the economies of these countries. Scholars have questioned the long-term sustainability of MIRAB microstates in a continuing debate that cannot be settled without recourse to a detailed examination of the magnitudes and trends involved. In order to add to a small but growing empirical literature on this issue, the present paper provides an exploratory empirical investigation of migration patterns and associated remittances in case of Tuvalu.
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Citation
Pacific Economic Bulletin, 22(1), p. 102-114
ISSN
1834-9455
0817-8038
1832-6900
Start page
102
End page
114

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