capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …This study provides new empirical evidence on the impact of international remittances. Using data from the two most …

-being of children aged 5–8 years old in Vietnam, using indicators of household poverty, per capita consumption expenditure, and …

receiving and sending remittances. Knowing about gender differences will help to better explain the impact of remittances and to … responsibility among women for the intergenerational transfers of remittances (particularly between parents and children) while men … tend to take more responsibility for intragenerational remittances. As well, after controlling for other factors and …

receipt of international remittances and internal remittances on education, labor and healthcare utilization of children in … Vietnam. It shows that there are no statistically significant effects of receipt of remittances on school enrolment of … children as well as child labor. However, receiving international remittances helps children increase the number of completed …

together with children and receiving remittances. Our analysis uses four household surveys conducted in Vietnam between 1992 … children and 34.8 percent were either receiving remittances directly or married to a recipient. From our logistic regression … analysis, we can further determine that living with children and remittances both serve continuing roles for elderly support …

Our findings include that overseas remittances come from throughout the world, but are dominated by the United States … as a main source. Also, over time, the destinations of foreign remittances are becoming more diverse as they move away … percentage of households receiving overseas remittances as held steady at around 5 to 7 percent of the population. Also, widows …

. However, we uncover an anomaly that the amount of remittances received from domestic sources is significantly larger than the … amount of remittances sent to domestic sources, implying that the survey is at least not representative of remittance senders …. By further exploring a unique characteristic of the survey questions about remittances, we determine that, in particular …

poverty, and improve equality. However, the overall impacts of remittances are uncertain from the view of economic theory as … international remittances on economic inequality and poverty. We conclude that international remittances are helping to improve …Remittances can potentially help to promote economic development by providing a mechanism to share risks, reduce …

household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …

This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …