remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances …Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …

growth, much less work has dealt with the importance of bank-based versus market-based financial systems for poverty and … economic growth, suggesting that the same could be true for poverty since growth is an important driver in reducing poverty … through 2008. The results suggest that when institutions are weak, bank-based financial systems are better at reducing poverty …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 … social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics … substantial contribution to poverty reduction …

The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households - due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions …

explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …

This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty … to differences in poverty and inequality measures even when alternate poverty lines are used. This study underscores the … problem that many developing countries face when it comes to monitoring poverty indicators over time where different …