aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally …The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

In this paper, we study the effect of remittances on the living standard of families living in Kosovo using detailed … regressions, we find that remittances significantly improve the living standard of the recipient households. The benefit of … remittances is much higher among households characterized by low levels of consumption, especially when the possible endogeneity …

diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level … individuals in the village inequality measure, concealing the effects of migration and remittances on income distribution at the …We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally …

inequality, and that the poorest people are the most exposed to these fluctuations. However, while aid and remittances do not … negative effects of volatility on the distribution of income, while remittances do not.Keywords: Volatility, Inequality, Aid …We analyse the relationship between income volatility and inequality and the conditional role played by aid and …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7–1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of … using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988–2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect …

households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … domestic product in 2008. Remittances have become the single most important source of foreign exchange to the economy and a …

the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since … inequality has remained very high. …