This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … poverty rate, but they tend to decrease the poverty gap and thereby ameliorate the depth of poverty. The estimates suggest … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7-1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of …

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 …. The paper dwells on the quality of data on private consumption obtained from the National Sample Surveys on household …