supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

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 …

Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively …

inflows. But country developments are at least as important in determining those flows, especially for Asia. They also find …

-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …

productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its …. Moreover, many of the same practices that have proved successful in Asia and in Africa can be applied where yields are …Asia's green revolution in rice was transformational and improved the lives of millions of poor households. Rice has …