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 …

This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable …. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow poverty reduction and an increase in inequality, while in the second … half of the period there was faster consumption growth, a sharp fall in poverty, and a modest reduction in inequality …

Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …

exploit quasi-random variation in road placement to estimate causal effects. We find that roads increase producer prices by 1 ….4 SD, reduce consumer prices by 0.6 SD, shift labor from agriculture to local casual work, and decrease short …-term migration. Additionally, road connectivity improves governance, delays marriages, and improves wedding quality. Our findings …

wages are sustained by a large reserve army of rural labor which drives internal migration, and (2) domestic capital is …