An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last … of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American … and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the … lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a …

equal, remittances decrease inequality as their effect is mostly felt among the poor and they are negatively related to the …This paper explores the effect of remittances across the distribution of income. Based on a panel of 46 countries that … covers the period between 1970 and 2000, we find that the effect of remittances is non-monotone across the distribution of …

remittances as tool for reducing inequality and covering households against poverty and social exclusion risks. The empirical … theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and economic development is far from clear. Although … there is wide consensus that foreign remittances can help receiving households to increase income, consumption and …

regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not … significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 … per- cent, with different effects across regions for extreme poverty. Foreign transfers, especially foreign pensions, have …