differentiated vulnerabilities across individuals and population groups. Inequality in the distribution of income and relevant …

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 … wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on …

means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … overall impact of migration is to reduce inequality across communities with relatively high levels of past migration. We also …International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the …

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 …

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China. We also identify a persistent global structure of two relatively …

vulnerability to poverty. Our findings stress that the international labor migration from Tajikistan may not be considered as a …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 …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across …

variables, functional form, and weights. While the UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) conceptually reflects the loss in … achievement due to inequality between men and women in three dimensions-health, empowerment, and labor force participation … dimensions of gender inequality. Though this requires a data revolution, we tried to reconstruct the GII in the context of Asia …

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad contribute to reducing the …