the same period, the headcount index of poverty fell from 43.2 percent in 1993 to 36.4 percent in 1999, and the poverty … gap, which measures the depth of poverty, fell from 16.2 percent in 1993 to 12.4 percent in 1999, hence, growth is poverty … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …

remittances as a development mechanism. This study attempts to understand to what degree labor patterns are affected by the … receipt of remittances. Using nationally representative household income and expenditure data for Mexico, I analyze the effect … range of -.006 to -.03. This finding attenuates to some degree the measure of the impact of remittances in the receiving …

This article examines the macroeconomic factors influencing the flow of remittances to selected English … capita remittances and selected macroeconomic variables. This article also examines the time series properties of the data … models on remittances by removing the possibility of a spurious relationship (Pedroni 1995,1997, 2000). The results strongly …