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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 218071, 14 pages
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Research Article

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances

Dennis W. Jansen,1 Diego E. Vacaflores,2 and George S. Naufal3,4

1Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
2Department of Finance and Economics, Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
3Department of Economics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
4IZA, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Received 30 May 2012; Accepted 22 July 2012

Academic Editors: J. M. Labeaga, U. Pascual, and M. Tsionas

Copyright © 2012 Dennis W. Jansen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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