This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly …, but they also find suggestive evidence that this effect may be short-lived as both remittances and agricultural income are …