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 …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0 …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last … of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

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 …

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 …

The general objective of the study is to assess the impact of Women Migrant Workers’ (WMWs) remittance in poverty …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …