program transfers wealth to poor families in rural areas, conditional on children's school attendance and health check-ups. In …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … panel data (2000 and 2007) from the Indonesian Family Life Survey. Three key findings emerge. First, using an instrumental … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …

poverty database, this study estimates poverty rates for African children using the new international poverty line of $1.90 a …The effect of demographics on poverty measurement based on per capita consumption is well known. The size and … household. Failure to address this issue may often lead to an underestimation or overestimation of poverty, especially for …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …