This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth. A 10% increase in remittances as a share of GDP leads to … a 0.9-1.2% increase in GDP growth. The findings also show that remittances only have a negligible effect on the overall …

the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of … NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the intertemporal changes in the poverty ratio has been more … influenced by the changes in per capita consumption rather than class distribution. Interpersonal inequality in the consumption …