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 …

overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode …

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 …

While economic growth has been cited as one of the main factors behind the reduction in absolute poverty, the … persisting problem of poverty in developing countries has raised doubts about the efficacy of economic growth in its reduction …. Recent evidence revealed that growth in Asia has been accompanied by an increase in relative poverty, or income inequality …

rural-urban migration and the informal sectors. The analysis pinpoints, among other things, the need to build up productive … migration from rural areas to urban centers, and productive employment opportunities in urban centers are essential to absorb … population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of …

, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure … several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …

migration in turn results in remittances inflows, which have reached unprecedented levels in Mexico with about US24bn in 2006 … having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … Mexico. A large share of the population has to live on less than US$2 a day. In rural areas, and particularly in the Southern …