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 …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

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 …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the …