which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

effect on these economies. The paper estimates the impact of remittances on output stability for countries that are dependent … find robust evidence that remittances have a negative effect on output growth volatility of recipient countries. This … result supports the notion that remittance flows are a stabilizing influence on output. Thus, the fall in remittances …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to … is both correlated with remittances and would only be expected to affect growth through its effect on remittances. The …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population. …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …