This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …

households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within …

This paper analyses remittances in fifteeen Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia … remittances are transitory only in Guatemala and Honduras. This might reflect the rather stable employment and wages of migrant … of remittances to these two countries. …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …

fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …