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 …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances …Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …

growth, much less work has dealt with the importance of bank-based versus market-based financial systems for poverty and … economic growth, suggesting that the same could be true for poverty since growth is an important driver in reducing poverty … through 2008. The results suggest that when institutions are weak, bank-based financial systems are better at reducing poverty …

position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise …

, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non …-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …