role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …Forward-looking poverty analyses are essential for targeting and implementing poverty prevention interventions. In the … presence of uncertainty and risk, the current poverty status of households is not a good indicator of whether they will be poor …