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Remittances, growth and poverty: New evidence from Asian countries

Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 524-538

The present study re-examines the effects of remittances on growth of GDP per capita using annual panel data for 24 Asia and Pacific countries. The results generally confirm that remittance flows have been beneficial to economic growth. However, our analysis also shows that the volatility of...

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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...

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Are migrants in large cities underpaid? : evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Pham Minh, Thai - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 20, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...

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Who is an internal migrant?

Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019

migration decision and the impact of migration on the household's income. We employ Probit modelling and difference …. Additionally, having a migrant, increases the household’s income under two definitions, while negatively impacting the household …'s income under the other two definitions. Therefore, it is pertinent to standardize the definition of an internal migrant …

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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys

Coxhead, Ian - 2016

We investigate determinants of individual migration decisions in Vietnam, a country with increasingly high levels of geographical labor mobility. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) of 2012, we find that probability of migration is strongly associated with...

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Poverty imputation in contexts without consumption data : a revisit with further refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...

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Poverty imputation in contexts without consumption data : a revisit with further refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

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Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...

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Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2006

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 …

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