The impact of foreign remittances on poverty in Nepal: A panel study of household survey data, 1996–2011

Waglé, Udaya R.; Devkota, Satis

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.019

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“…Among the studies that attempted to establish the relationship between poverty and remittance, the results largely reflect a positive relationship (Adam and Page 2005;Acosta 2008;Gupta et al 2009; Fuente 2010; Anyanwu and Erhijakpan 2010; Adam and Cuecuacha 2013; Akobeng 2016; Nahar and Arshad 2017; Vacaflores 2018; Tsaurai 2018). However, there are other studies that found the relationship to be dependent on the country of study, methodology and time under investigation (Azam et al 2016;Wangle and Devkota 2018). Adam and Page (2005) in a study on 71 developing countries investigated the impact of remittance on poverty.…”

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THE impact of remittance inflows on poverty in Botswana: an ARDL approach

Musakwa

Odhiambo

2019

Economic Structures

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The growing need to find a solution to poverty alleviation has resulted in heightened interest from researchers to find the most important economic variable that could serve as a panacea to poverty alleviation. Consequently, the surge in remittance inflows globally, in general, and in low and middle-income countries, in particular, has ignited studies focused on the establishment of the nature of the relationship between remittance and poverty. According to Migration Policy Institute (2019), the global monetary transfers from migrants reached $689 billion in 2018 with remittance inflows to low and middle-income countries, taking 77% of the global transfer. The monetary transfers to low and middle-income countries are expected to grow by $21 billion in 2019 and projected to reach $550 billion (Migration Policy Institute 2019). Remittance has grown to be an important source of foreign income besides foreign direct investment and official development assistance (ODA) (Ratha et al. 2018).

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THE impact of remittance inflows on poverty in Botswana: an ARDL approach

Musakwa

Odhiambo

2019

Economic Structures

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“…Poverty alleviation programs have received great attention worldwide [8,10,25]. To target the poor, the Chinese government has invested greatly in community based programs [1,48].…”

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“…Reducing poverty has been the major task of the government to improve social development [1][2][3], boost economic growth [4][5][6] and benefit individual welfare [7][8][9][10]. According to the World Bank [11], the population of people living in poverty decreased from 35% in 1990 to 11% in 2013.…”

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The Impact of Program Participation on Rural Household Income: Evidence from China’s Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program

Lin

Zhang

2019

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Villagers' participation in poverty alleviation programs has received considerable attention, especially with regard to the poor. However, not much is known about the welfare effect of villagers' program participation. This paper analyzes the impact of villagers' program participation on their incomes. We used household data from 529 villagers in China's Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program. We focused on two types of program participation-discussion and voting. Using the propensity score matching approach, we estimate the impact of rural households' program participation on their income. The results show that the education and the political career of the household head determine program participation. Households participating in discussion and voting have a positive and significant effect on household income. Richer households benefit more from the program. However, the poor receive less benefits. We conclude that broadening villager's participation can boost the effectiveness of China's poverty alleviation program.

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“…Due to data accessibility, our study period was limited to the period from 2005 to 2011 in Nepal. However, compared with the existing studies on Nepal poverty [4,19,22,23,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59], this study provided a contextual background on the overall trend of poverty change, the poverty concentration, the spatial change of UP (PI, PG and SPG), and the combination mode of UP-economic development along different dimensions and at district scales. This provided the opportunity to elucidate and consider potential drivers of development at a national scale.…”

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“…Since the 1970s, Nepal has instigated a range of poverty reduction and development programs [3], which have helped reduce poverty in the county, although there are still distinct problems, particularly in mountainous rural areas where the poverty gap remains large. Poverty research for Nepal has concentrated on the connection between poverty and income [47], the influence of migration and remittances on poverty [48,49], household livelihood options for the implication of rural pro-poverty [50], environmental reliance of household income and poverty reduction [51][52][53], public facilities or services for alleviating poverty in difficult terrains, such as rural road construction [54] and energy accessibility [55], as well as the nexus between poverty and political conflicts, including violence and wars [56][57][58].…”

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Geographical Dynamics of Poverty in Nepal between 2005 and 2011: Where and How?

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Poverty eradication is currently a central issue within the national economic development strategy in developing countries. Understanding the spatial changes and possible drivers of poverty from different geographical perspectives has the potential to provide a policy-relevant understanding of the trends in poverty. By district-level data, poverty incidence (PI), and a statistical analysis of the period from 2005 to 2011 in Nepal, we used the location quotient (LQ), as well as the Lorenz curve, to inspect the poverty concentration and the spatial-temporal variation of poverty in Nepal. As such, this study analyzed the change in identified typologies of poverty using an approach, which accounts for interregional and three identified terrain components. The PI methodological approach was applied in order to (i) compare the spatial change in poverty for Nepal during the study period from a geographical-administrative perspective and (ii) to develop Lorenze curves which show the change of poverty concentration over the study period. Within the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) approach, PI was further used, in combination with the indices of poverty gap (PG) and squared poverty gap (SPG), in order to highlight the unidimensional poverty (UP), that is the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty between 2005 and 2011. Simultaneously, the spatial relationship between UP and economic development was assessed, leading to five specific economic modes or typologies of poverty. Our findings identified that proportional poverty appears to have grown in mountainous areas as well as more urbanized and developed regions, while the mid hill regions have steadily reduced proportions of poverty. We propose a hypothesis, for further examination, which suggests that the increase in proportional poverty in the mountain regions is as a result of the migration to the urban areas of Nepal of the relatively less poor, leaving behind a trapped poorer population. This migration to urban areas of the relatively less poor, rather counterintuitively, produced an increase in proportional poverty in the urban areas. This is due to the fact that while this population represents the wealthier mountain communities, they are still relatively poor in an urban setting.

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The impact of foreign remittances on poverty in Nepal: A panel study of household survey data, 1996–2011

Cited by 47 publications

References 30 publications

THE impact of remittance inflows on poverty in Botswana: an ARDL approach

THE impact of remittance inflows on poverty in Botswana: an ARDL approach

The Impact of Program Participation on Rural Household Income: Evidence from China’s Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program

Geographical Dynamics of Poverty in Nepal between 2005 and 2011: Where and How?

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