This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households … Morocco. We apply propensity score matching methods to the 2006/2007 Moroccan Living Standards Measurement Survey. We find …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw … of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effect is substantially smaller than the one that we find focusing …

This study analyzes the impact of remittances on poverty in Nigeria, using data from the 2004 Nigerian National Living … (PSM) method to estimate the impact of remittances on poverty. The use of these methods was based on two reasons. The first … international remittances reduce the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The statistical tests show a significant Average …

empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw … of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effect is substantially smaller than the one that we find focusing …

This study attempts to uncover the biases in the impact evaluation of remittances when the problems relating to … selection bias and counter factual are not taken into account. Taking migration as an intervention and foreign remittances as an … accumulation which, directly and indirectly, affect households’ welfare, poverty incidence and growth prospects of a country. Using …

explore the effects of remittances on Bolivian household poverty levels. We use micro data from the 2008 Household Survey … treated to compare the poverty level between households which receive and do not receive remittances. Results show that … remittances have a positive effect on reducing urban households’ poverty level, whereas there is no effect on rural households …