This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …

Rückgang der Armut um 50 % (gemessen an der Zahl der Haushalte unterhalb der Armutsgrenze um 34 %). Anstieg des …

expenditures and, consequently, poor social conditions in Pakistan. (Pak Development Rev/DÜI) …

Pakistan during the period. While a number of studies have already shown a rising trend in absolute poverty, inequality seems …There have been various attempts to estimate absolute poverty during the 1990s but there is hardly any attempt to … examine the issue of income inequality in Pakistan. The paper examines the trends in inequality from the most recent micro …