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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …
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The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...
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The spread of the novel coronavirus and 'stay at home' measures in response to this global health crisis is profoundly changing societies and economies around the world. The objective of this work is to analyze the economic impact of Covid-19 by focusing on their implications on migrant...
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growth and poverty. Owing to the poverty-alleviating and income-generating effects of remittances, it may theoretically … as remittance receipts increase income and welfare, there is a diverse effect on the costs and benefits of different …
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for climate research and other studies at global, regional and country level. Based on the global income distribution and …
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for climate research and other studies at global, regional and country level. Based on the global income distribution and … in African economies could offset the situation. -- Global ; poverty ; income distribution ; inequality ; emission …
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
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This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … higher MFIs' gross loan portfolio per capita tend to have lower income inequality, which confirm the beneficial outcome of … the relative income position of the poor in developing countries, albeit slowly. Our findings have relevant …
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