capture resource-based transmission of culture. Third, overall remittances send from the donor countries are used as proxy for … recipient countries, and, last but not least, (c) larger remittances sent from donor countries strengthen the growth effects of …

international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people … inequality, the existence of inequality aversion has become a generally accepted fact in Economics. This dissertation contributes … to the ensuing debate on causes, consequences, and measurement of inequality. It consists of three essays providing …

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues to be considered are the space in which gender inequality in … overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is … necessarily the goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of …