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Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2006

"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level,...

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Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala

Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2005

"The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods. Contrary to...

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Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

Adams, Richard H. - 2004

"Adams uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala. With only one exception, he finds that both internal and international remittances reduce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522916

The impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Ghana

Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2008

"This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control for selection and endogeneity, it uses a two-stage...

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Gender and poverty : / a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes

Lokshin, Michael - 2003

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Monitoring Basic Opportunities throughout the Lifecycle with the Human Opportunity Index in Chile

World Bank - 2012

Chile has made significant progress towards equalizing opportunities in recent years, especially those pertaining to poverty alleviation, school enrollment, and access to health services. A monitoring system of basic opportunities that effectively incorporates equity concerns may help...

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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - 2009

"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …

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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development

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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery

Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011

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Capital for the future : saving and investment in an interdependent world

Dailami, Mansoor (contributor); … - 2013

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