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 …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

tradeliberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in … inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with workers that have very low education levels … inequality in countries that are well-endowed with primary-educated labor. Similar results are also apparent when decile data are …

social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …

The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households - due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions …

The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He … concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the … explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …

to differences in poverty and inequality measures even when alternate poverty lines are used. This study underscores the …This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty … and inequality measures in Niger. The first methodology is a 7-day recall period, the second one is a usual month, and the …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … resources to increase the size and coverage of pro-poor direct transfers programs may alleviate poverty and reduce inequality …