TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Al-Abri, Almukhtar
AU  - Genc, Ismail H.
AU  - Naufal, George S
        TI  - The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country
        PY  - 2018/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11676
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11676
        AB  - The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to identify the impact of government spending on Saudi Arabia's real output considering the role of remittance outflows. The results suggest that remittance outflows have a weak effect, if at all, on government spending, which, in turn, has an insignificant impact on GDP. The paper discusses some policy implications.
        KW  - remittances
KW  - multipliers
KW  - fiscal policy
KW  - GCC
        ER  -