Background and objectives -- Nepalese trade policy reforms -- Liberalization reforms and poverty : theory and empirics -- The social accounting matrix of Nepal -- Nepal CGE model and calibration : simulations of liberalization and reform policies -- Dynamic Nepal CGE model : higher and pro-poor...

This paper examines the effect of remittances on household expenditure patterns applying propensity score matching methods that allow designing and analyzing observational data and enable reducing selection bias. We use data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2010/2011. In general,...