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 …

Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person's ability to work and …

The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past …

, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the …

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that … those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

Is it possible for countries to eradicate poverty while also meeting environmental goals? Despite the passage of … poverty and environmental outcomes (carbon emissions) into a single variable, the carbon intensity of poverty reduction (CIPR … population above the poverty line. In parallel an analytic framework is developed to formulate propositions concerning the …