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 …

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 …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita …We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and … from the mine, while district-level consumption inequality increases in all districts belonging to a producing province …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … dimension and the interdependence of the often only separately counted multiple poverty dimensions. Our paper will contribute to …