remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the existence of poverty traps, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms … through which poor individuals or countries remain poor. Poverty traps have captured the interest of many development policy … makers, because poverty traps provide a theoretically coherent explanation for persistent poverty. They also suggest that …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show … how repeated cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty …

The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly … which applicants to the over-subscribed Samoan Quota may immigrate to New Zealand. The analysis compares incomes and poverty … allow for estimation of duration effects. The authors find that migration reduced poverty among former household members …

(34 percent). The paper concludes that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of …