which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reducation in the absesnce of a decline in remittances … explaining the increase in poverty in pakistan. …This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberlisation and a decline in remittances from abroad …

This paper illustrates that cross-country generalizations about the impact of remittances on economic security are …, immigration policies and conditions in the host country, and the size and concentrations of the remittances. The policy …

relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances on poverty alleviation and income distribution are found to be stronger when the more rigorous, counterfactual income …We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

Based on the economic theory of the family, this paper constructs a model of remittances where the migrant, besides …

This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects … account the endogeneity of remittances, migration and financial development, we show that remittances reduce significantly the …

This paper examines the relationship between migrants remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflow of remittances helps to offset the effects … (of which 31 are African) observed in the year 2000 and after taking into account the endogeneity of remittances …