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 …

intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …, inequality can also affect growth through poverty, an indirect channel that has not been explicitly analyzed. This paper … inequality and poverty to an otherwise standard set of growth determinants. Given inequality, the correlation of growth with …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …

households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel …'s 2015 fiscal policy reduces inequality; the largest reduction is created by in-kind public service expenditures on education …. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct …