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This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan … significant impact on aggregate poverty and income inequality in Pakistan in short-run. In long run, trade liberalization has some … strong effects on poverty and inequality. Nevertheless, other control variables - foreign remittances and gross capital …
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This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …
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conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However … trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … migration and a sharp growth in the remittances-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio; in 2011/12 it was about 23%. The …
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large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …
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Most research on poverty has focused on causes of poverty and the inequality gap nationally, meanwhile increasing … levels of inequality and poverty has actual occurred within population groups. This study focuses on the sources and extent …, coloured and black Africans) inequality and poverty which varies more widely today than over the past decade. To achieve this …
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