different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …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 …

income inequality by 2030. However, the potential reduction can be fully accounted for by the projected convergence in …

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …

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 …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …

This note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If … those who send it come from poorer households (semi-skilled and unskilled workers), its impact on poverty would be greater …. Second, that the manner in which remittances are sent, i.e. through legal or illegal channels, also makes a difference in …

This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the …. The results also indicate that richer households are more affected by remittances. The poverty headcount and poverty gap … remittances improve significantly households’ per capita expenditures. However, the area and quintiles sub-sampling reveals some …

Pakistan has been experiencing robust economic growth for the past few years. The macroeconomic position as exhibited … remains; will Pakistan be able to sustain these growth levels? Preserving the momentum becomes difficult when growth is … national level and has deeper sociological consequences as well. Pakistan being a small open economy has limited or no control …

2001, Pakistan has benefited from, an increase in the inflow of remittances, foreign assistance from bilateral and …This paper studies the welfare impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain … achieved during the past seven years in reducing the poverty levels. We study using a CGE-microsimulation model the effects of …