(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances …Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …

and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the … impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and inequality in the case of Hubei province using the data of a 2002 … household survey. Since remittances are a potential substitute for farm income, the paper presents counterfactual scenarios of …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …