measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing … while heterogeneity was addressed by employing the Quantile Regression technique. Also, the FIES data on remittances was … more accurate estimate of remittances sent by family members working abroad and its effects. The study found that while …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released …

After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan … within households sustain the migrant in case of unemployment. The economic tie linking the two households is remittances … rather then self-interest. Thus in the model both migration and remittances are endogenously determined. This extended family …