countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …

from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the …

conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However … trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … migration and a sharp growth in the remittances-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio; in 2011/12 it was about 23%. The …

Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern Bildung und Migration Kanäle zur Überwindung von Armut und sozialer … Ungleichheit in Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika darstellen können. Kapitel 2 untersucht die Auswirkungen einer Verlängerung der …