remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar … decrease in the poverty headcount ratio at USD 1.90 a day, a 4.8-percentage-point decline in poverty gap ratio at USD 1.90 a …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

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 … measures of poverty [the poverty headcount ratio at US $1.90 and US $3.10 a day (% of population)] as dependent variables, the …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 … used to receive/send money’ have an appealing role in promoting inclusive development in all poverty distributions, with ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …

Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite … the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 … million Europeans. Moreover, trends in poverty incidence show how poverty risks are sensitive to overall socio …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …