remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To … 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 …

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 …

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 …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

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

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

liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in … inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with workers that have very low education levels … inequality in countries that are well-endowed with primary-educated labor. Similar results are also apparent when decile data are …

"The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He … concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the … explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …

social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …"Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …

"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions. "--World …