Existing empirical evidence indicates that remittances have a positive impact on a good number of development indicators of recipient countries. Yet when flows are too large relative to the size of the recipient economies, as those observed in a number of Latin American countries, they may also...

This paper discusses the channels of impact of an extractives activity on an economy by presenting a brief description supported by graphics of the different routes through which the direct economic and social impacts of these activities might be enhanced. These routes include those that often...

There has been a long-standing tradition, prompted by a 1963 paper by Ronald E. Miller, in the potential size orf the feedback effects on activities in a region arising intially from a stimulus in that region but due to its linkages through its trade with another region (or regions). Early...