Titre : | The effect of remittances prior to an election (2015) |
Auteurs : | Jean-Louis Combes ; Christian Hubert Ebeke ; Mathilde Maurel |
Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
Dans : | Applied economics (Vol. 47 N°38, August 2015) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 4074-4089 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > situation économique > développement économique > pays en développement [Eurovoc] VIE POLITIQUE > vie politique et sécurité publique > politique |
Tags : | remittances ; political business cycles |
Résumé : | The objective of the article is to assess whether remittances have an influence on political manipulation, which may occur prior to an election, through an increase in the government consumption-to-GDP ratio. We combine data from the National Elections across Democracy and Autocracy data set compiled and discussed in Hyde and Marinov (2012) and the World Development Indicators data set. We focus on 70 developing countries over the period 1990–2010. It appears that the political budget cycle is reduced up to the point where it is fully cancelled out at a remittance threshold of 10.7% of GDP. Those findings are robust to different robustness checks. |
Doi : | DOI : 10.1080/00036846.2015.1023945 |
Axe de recherche : | Financement du développement |
En ligne : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01167208 |
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