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The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ethiopia
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785518
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330245
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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth
Negre, Mario - 2010
to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280068
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The Relationship between Individual Labour Market Outcomes, Household Income and Expenditure, and Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand from 1983 to 2003
Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John; Hyslop, Dean; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between individual labour market outcomes, household income and expenditure …). We begin by discussing and summarising measures of income and expenditure calculated from the HES. We next examine the … relationship between individual labour market outcomes, and household income and expenditure for households with different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856281
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"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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 foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010713910
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Transferts de fonds des migrants, pauvreté et inégalités au Mali. Analyse à partir de trois scénarios contrefactuels
Gubert, Flore; Lassourd, Thomas; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073324
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Migration et pauvreté en Haïti : impacts économiques et sociaux des envois de fonds sur l’inégalité et la pauvreté ?
Paul, Bénédique - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the Haitian diaspora has surpassed one billion U.S. dollars in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107325
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Transferts de fonds des migrants, pauvreté et inégalités au Mali. Analyse à partir de trois scénarios contrefactuels.
Gubert, Flore; Lassourd, Thomas; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2010
impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799441
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"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - 2013
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 foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333195
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566767