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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador

Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

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Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique

Ibraimo, Maimuna; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2023

migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …

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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China

Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19

Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020

Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental and observational variation in prior migration...

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Is internal migration bad for receiving urban centres? Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2000

Ferré, Céline - 2011

grew tremendously, while immigration participated in the rapid urbanization process and the redistribution of poverty …

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Criss-Crossing Migration

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2014

The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective needs to cede to a broader one that challenges the basic conception of physical rootedness in...

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Migration and Poverty in India: A Multi-Patterned and Complex Reality

Shah, Amita; Kumar, Animesh - eSocialSciences - 2013

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

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Climate Change and Migration in Southeast Asia: Responding to a New Human Security Challenge

Elliot, Lorraine - eSocialSciences - 2012

The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses can play in strengthening the knowledge base and improving collaborative platforms for action.

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Impact Assessment of CFPR/TUP: A Descriptive Analysis Based on 2002-2005 Panel Data

Sulaiman, Munshi; Rabbani, Mehnaz; Prakash, Vivek A. - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but that is beyond the scope of this paper. Our goal here is to present a descriptive overview of the...

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