This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988-2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per...

This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. First, it investigates how much growth is required to offset the adverse effect of an increase in inequality on poverty. This trade-off between...

Preface -- Introduction -- Equity, inequality traps and institutions: a cross-disciplinary view / Anthony Bebbington, Anis Dani, Arjan de Haan and Michael Walton -- Inequality traps and institutionalized inequities -- Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality...

Introduction / Bourguignon, Bussolo, Pereira da Silva -- Chap. 1: Winners and losers from trade reform in Morocco / Lokshin and Ravallion -- Chap. 2: A micro-macro assessment of the poverty impacts of the Doha and FTAA agenda for Latin America / Bussolo, Lay, van der Mensbrugghe -- Chap. 3:...