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  "title": "Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines",
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  "summary": "International migration and large remittance flows have been prominent features of the Philippine economy for many decades. This paper describes the evolving pattern of migration and remittance flows and analyzes some of the channels through which remittances affect economic activity.",
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      "heading": "Summary and Scope",
      "content": "- Authors: Robert M Burgess, V. Haksar\n- Publication date: June 1, 2005\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2005/111\n- Issue: 111\n- Volume: 2005\n- Pages: 17\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451861303.001\n- Stock No: WPIEA2005111\n- ISBN: 9781451861303\n- ISSN: 1018-5941"
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      "content": "- International migration and large remittance flows have been prominent features of the Philippine economy for many decades.\n- The paper describes the evolving pattern of migration and remittance flows and analyzes some of the channels through which remittances affect economic activity.\n- The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short-term stabilizing effect on consumption of remittance flows.\n- The longer term economic effect of remittance flows is ambiguous, consistent with findings in other countries."
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      "heading": "Analytical focus",
      "content": "- Examination of evolving patterns of migration and remittance flows in the Philippines.\n- Analysis of channels through which remittances affect economic activity, including consumption and income dynamics.\n- Empirical assessment of short-term and longer term effects of remittances on the economy."
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      "content": "- Subject: Capital inflows, Consumption, Disposable income, Income, Remittances\n- Keywords: remittance, WP"
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    "Authors: Robert M Burgess, V. Haksar",
    "Published: June 1, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451861303.001",
    "Authors: Robert M Burgess, V. Haksar",
    "Publication date: June 1, 2005",
    "Series: Working Paper No. 2005/111",
    "Issue: 111",
    "Volume: 2005",
    "Pages: 17",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451861303.001",
    "Stock No: WPIEA2005111",
    "ISBN: 9781451861303",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941",
    "International migration and large remittance flows have been prominent features of the Philippine economy for many decades.",
    "The paper describes the evolving pattern of migration and remittance flows and analyzes some of the channels through which remittances affect economic activity.",
    "The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short-term stabilizing effect on consumption of remittance flows.",
    "The longer term economic effect of remittance flows is ambiguous, consistent with findings in other countries.",
    "Examination of evolving patterns of migration and remittance flows in the Philippines.",
    "Analysis of channels through which remittances affect economic activity, including consumption and income dynamics.",
    "Empirical assessment of short-term and longer term effects of remittances on the economy.",
    "Subject: Capital inflows, Consumption, Disposable income, Income, Remittances",
    "Keywords: remittance, WP",
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