This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …