This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …: whether trade reform destroys markets or creates new ones, how it affects the ability to bear risk, how labour demand shocks …

decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and … impact of trade liberalisation dominates the negative impact of a decline in remittances in the case of rural areas. Poverty …This paper explores the impact of two shocks, trade liberalisation policies and decline in remittances, on welfare and …

poverty impacts after trade liberalization. Additionally, changes in employment levels are almost immaterial. We conclude that …In this work we quantify the impact of trade liberalization in the global beef markets over labor income, employment … and poverty levels in Uruguay. The adjustment of local beef prices after an external shock to the worldwide price levels …

This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households’ poverty and income distribution. Using state … remittances. Our results suggest that remittances alleviate both absolute and relative poverty levels and lead to a marginal … the short-run – remittances have a positive poverty reduction effect over time. These findings have important welfare …

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

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of migration and remittances (that is, a ‘private safety net’ built around solidarity within families) rather than the … distributive effect of public social expenditure or other public policies. -- El Salvador ; remittances ; migration ; inequality …

The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … weak impact on the poverty, remittances should be taken seriously, and this by taking measures by developed countries to …

The study explored the impact of remittances on poverty in selected emerging markets. On the theoretical front, the … optimistic view argued that remittances inflow into the labour exporting country reduces poverty whereas the pessimistic view … fixed effects approach produced results which supported the remittances led poverty reduction (optimistic) hypothesis …