large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …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 …

affect the household consumption expenditure and hence poverty. The findings suggest that reduction in remittances will …, the probability of households becoming poor decreases by 12.7% if they receive remittances. The poverty headcount ratio …This paper examines the impact of remittances on economy and household welfare in Pakistan by using a general …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …

conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However … trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … migration and a sharp growth in the remittances-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio; in 2011/12 it was about 23%. The …

at home. In the absence of remittance income, the poverty rate in Uzbekistan (measured at 3.2 dollar/day purchasing power …

This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after …

unattainable. International remittances of immigrants to their country of origin is one of the most important elements contributing …