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Do international remittances promote poverty alleviation? : evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Saptono, Prianto Budi; Mahmud, Gustofan; Lei, Li-fen - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272641
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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The effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012
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 consumption in the hypothetical case of no remittance is estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330245
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Estimating the net effects of migration and remittances on poverty and inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga
Brown, Richard P. C.; Jimenez, Eliana - 2007
income distribution and measures of poverty, after controlling for selectivity in migration and endogeneity in the … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … account of what the migrant members would have earned had they not migrated. The results are compared with alternative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284797
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The effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012 - Publisert 16. apr. 2012 14:05
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 consumption in the hypothetical case of no remittance is estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521070
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Poverty imputation in contexts without consumption data : a revisit with further refinements
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023
Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546036
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Poverty imputation in contexts without consumption data : a revisit with further refinements
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023
Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499556
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Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637118
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Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582221
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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310960