There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … paper, we provide some elements that can help understand what are the consequences of these gifts on poverty and inequality …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …

This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …