remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting …

The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use …

: passport costs and legal restrictions on emigration. New data collected on passport costs in 127 countries reveals enormous …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

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