capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …This study provides new empirical evidence on the impact of international remittances. Using data from the two most …

determinants of each type of poverty for the case of Mexico. It was found that 69 percent of total poverty is chronic and 31 …This paper uses panel data to decompose total poverty into its chronic and transient components and to estimate the … poverty are different from those explaining transient poverty. These results indicate that chronic poverty is an issue which …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies …, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial …

overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to ``exclusion'' or ``relative-deprivation'' aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

poverty at the household level. Our application is to indictors of assets, undernutrition, and illiteracy drawn from the … Ethiopia Rural Household Survey (ERHS) panel data set. We develop a framework for operationalizing the concept of … multidimensional traps, involving two or more simultaneous distinct poverty dimensions of persistent poverty; these include a subset of …

This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty … poverty communities. The analysis shows that while vulnerability concepts in both the disciplines are defendable, broader … poverty communities. First, the climate change community could benefit from exploring a notion analogous to that of “poverty …