There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … paper, we provide some elements that can help understand what are the consequences of these gifts on poverty and inequality …

This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of Pakistan. We explain why the economic growth … achieved during the past decade was highly dependent on improvements in the external balance. Between 2001 and 2007, Pakistan … benefited from an increase in remittances, foreign assistance from bilateral and multilateral sources, and a relatively stable …

1992/93 and 2007/08 in Pakistan. The results show that growth and inequality play significant roles in affecting poverty … poverty, income inequality, and growth using pooled data from eight household income and expenditure surveys conducted between … positive impact on inequality. The results also show that the absolute magnitude of net growth elasticity of poverty is smaller …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …

This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …