regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not … significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 … per- cent, with different effects across regions for extreme poverty. Foreign transfers, especially foreign pensions, have …

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to …

Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong positive impact …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The … calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …

aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the … vulnerability of non-poor households are significantly dropped due to remittances. Our findings also suggest that remittance inflows …

This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households … that migrants’ remittances can improve living standards among Moroccan households and affect negatively the incidence of …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms …’ terms but not in either relative or ‘strong absolute’ terms, owing to the increase in inequality. This can be explained … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …

more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller reductions in household poverty and inequality. If significance of results … on Brazilian states depends on the choice of poverty and inequality indicators, robust and contrasting results emerge … when we disaggregate into rural and urban areas within states. Trade liberalization contributes to poverty and inequality …

In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial …

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim o reducing poverty by half … strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. …