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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 …

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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...

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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

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Exploring the macroeconomic drivers of international bilateral-remittance flows: a gravity-model approach

Fagiolo, Giorgio; Rughi, Tommaso - 2021

in the home country. We also document the existence of a robust non-linear relationship between per-capita income at home … according to their income group. Overall, our results suggest that altruistic and self-interested motives non-trivially interact … and may change across both host/home income groups and the level of income at home. …

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Remittances, finance and growth : does financial development foster remittances and their impact on economic growth

Sobiech, Izabela - 2015 - This version: September 19, 2015

In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate an index of overall financial conditions and use it to determine the relevance of the financial sector as a transmission channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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Relationship between Remittances and Economic Growth in Bangladesh : An Econometric Study

Datta, Kanchan - 2014

In Bangladesh, remittances have increased sharply over the last 20 years and amount since 2008 to over 10 percent of GDP. While remittances can foster growth and development as well as prevent balance of payment crises, they can also have a negative impact on growth if used for conspicuous...

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-13, pp. 1-57

of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

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Using the GB2 income distribution

Duangkamon Chotikapanich; Griffiths, William E.; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-24

To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income and other positively …

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - 2011

of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125164

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