, thereby reducing inequality and poverty. However, studies on the minimum wage have not focused on assessing the effects on … effects of minimum wage increases on income inequality and poverty. To this end, firstly, a systematic review of the empirical … inequality and in-work poverty. Furthermore, there is evidence of a spillover effect towards income groups closer to the …

among remittances, growth and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific and highlights policy implications to be considered …Remittances have increased in low-income and lower- middle-income countries in recent years, playing an important role … as a stable source of finance at the macro-level, and in poverty reduction at the micro-level. Drawing on a critical …

three aspects each section of this work tries to address. The first part analyses those remittances’ features on which the … behavioral and economic motives. Finally, the third one tries to go through the relationship between remittances and development …

In this article I have presented the kernel of the migration literature on remittances. I started from their three most … debated features: stability, cyclicality and sustainability. I then moved to the motives driving remittances and, finally … riskier and more productive investments, ‘substituting’ their liquidity constraints with pro-cyclical remittances. On the …