We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower inequality. This paper shows both theoretically and empirically …-shaped relationship between emigration and inequality in rural sending communities in Mexico. After instrumenting, we find that the …

high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this … of ownership by analysing the substance of 22 developing countries' Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the … income poverty reduction and social sector investments (education, health and water) are important priorities in most of the …

significantly lower measured vulnerability to poverty, those households receiving remittances from migrants had a lower …We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is …

Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution … during the 1990s. It offers four conclusions. First, the efficiency with which growth reduces poverty increases with a …

This paper explores the relationship between different levels of education and poverty through an analysis of household … secondary level between 1988-2000, and confirms the inequality that exists in the access to education at post-primary level … of male and female children. Both poverty and low education have positive but weak effect on child/woman ratio. On the …

intraregional inequality and inequity with respect to levels of income and access to basic services and identifying priority sectors …