The Effects Of International Remittances On Poverty Inequality And Development In Rural Egypt
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Author | : Richard H. Adams |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0896290891 |
Study based on a household survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) between September 1986 and May 1987 in three villages in the Minya governate.
Author | : R. H. Adams Junior |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Research Issues Approach and Methodology; Who Goes to Work Abroad; International Remittances and Income Inequality; International Migration, Remittances, and the Poor; The economic uses of international remittances; Conclusions and policy recommendations.
Author | : Richard H. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 9780896290891 |
Author | : David J. McKenzie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
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This paper reviews common challenges faced by researchers interested in measuring the impact of migration and remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting development practitioners in converting this research into policy advice. On the analytical side, the paper discusses the proper formulation of a research question, the choice of the analytical tools, as well as the interpretation of the results in the presence of pervasive endogeneity in all decisions surrounding migration. Particular attention is given to the use of instrumental variables in migration research. On the policy side, the paper argues that the private nature of migration and remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data and proper evaluations of migration-related government policies. The paper focuses mainly on microeconomic evidence about international migration, but much of the discussion extends to other settings as well.
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Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Debt Markets |
ISBN | : |
Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances. Household survey-based estimates for 10 LAC countries confirm that remittances have negative albeit relatively small inequality and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants.
Author | : Paolo Verme |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464801983 |
Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Facts and Perceptions Across People, Time, and Space comprises four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper, by Sherine Al-Shawarby, reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. The second paper, by Branko Milanovic, turns to the global and spatial dimensions of inequality. The Egyptian society remains deeply divided across space and in terms of welfare, and this study unveils some of the hidden features of this inequality. The third paper, by Paolo Verme, studies facts and perceptions of inequality during the 2000-2009 period, which preceded the Egyptian revolution. The fourth paper, by Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah, and Enas Ali A.El-Majeed, assesses the state of poverty and inequality among the poorest villages of Egypt. The paper attempts to explain the level of inequality in an effort to disentangle those factors that derive from household abilities from those factors that derive from local opportunities. Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt provides some initial elements that could explain the apparent mismatch between inequality measured with household surveys and inequality aversion measured by values surveys. This is a particularly important and timely topic to address in light of the unfolding developments in the Arab region. The book should be of interest to any observer of the political and economic evolution of the Arab region in the past few years and to poverty and inequality specialists interested in a deeper understanding of the distribution of incomes in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. World Bank Studies are available individually or on standing order. The World Bank Studies series is also available online through the Open Knowledge Repository (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/) and the World Bank e-Library (www.worldbank.org/elibrary). Book jacket.
Author | : F.S. Wouterse |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 082136345X |
International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that development countries' remittance receipts totaled 160 billion in 2004, more than twice the size of official aid. This year's edition of Global Economic Prospects focuses on remittances and migration. The bulk of the book covers remittances.
Author | : Richard H. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : |
This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set of 115 developing countries. Results suggest that countries located close to a major remittance-sending region (like the United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a country has no statistical effect on the amount of remittances received, for those countries which are fortunate enough to receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review of findings from recent research suggest that households receiving international remittances spend less at the margin on consumption goods-like food-and more on investment goods-like education and housing. Households receiving international remittances also tend to invest more in entrepreneurial activities.
Author | : Richard H. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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