(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 … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …. Household survey-based estimates for 10 LAC countries confirm that remittances have negative albeit relatively small inequality …

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 …

impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and inequality in the case of Hubei province using the data of a 2002 … what rural income, poverty, and inequality would have been in the absence of migration. The results show that, by providing … and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

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 … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was …

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 … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. …