This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

districts have better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …

United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

The labor market performance in Croatia failed to keep pace with the moderately good overall macroeconomic development … Force Survey (LFS) data from 2002-04, this paper studies the labor market performance in Croatia at the national and …