This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …

position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise …

, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non …-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …-economic context in which it is introduced. Some versions of BI could potentially help to reduce poverty but always at a significant …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …