This paper examines developments in Albania’s income distribution and poverty during the transition to a market …, the decline in state enterprise employment, emigrant remittances, and social safety nets. Income and consumption data … consumption data, however, a large decline in urban real incomes is implausible. Poverty in both the urban and the rural …

. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity … incidence of poverty and income distribution, and discusses policy options that can be considered by governments in the … with an increase in poverty and, in some cases, income inequality. The provison of targeted safety nets and the protection …

payments, remittances, and securities settlement processes in El Salvador, based on international standards and best practices …

worker remittances. It addresses the many common policy challenges facing Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador …

development vis-à-vis income in Pakistan for the periods 1980-2010 using the bounds procedure within the augmented Solow …-model approach. In the long-run, trade openness, ODA, and remittances have a significant positive effect on the income level, while … while remittances, trade openness and financial development have lagged negative effects. Therefore, understanding that aid …

. The model is estimated for Pakistan and is used to analyze the country’s recent high growth-low inflation experience. In … particular, the contribution that external inflows, in the form of workers’ remittances and concessional lending, may have made …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign remittances on economic growth of Pakistan. We use secondary time series … foreign remittances have positive and significant relation with GDP of Pakistan while inflation and exchange rate has negative … variables. GDP is taken as dependent variable while foreign remittances, FDI, inflation and exchange rate as independent …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …