Do international migration and remittances reduce poverty in developing countries

By R. H. Adams, J. Page. 2005

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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition (2017, methodology): “Using emigration data from 74 low- and middle-income developing countries and controlling for geography, institutional quality, average education and population density, [1] found a return point of the emigration hump at $1,630 (in 1995 prices).”
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States (2016, background): “However, this could also hit hard at the poor especially if financial sanctions disrupt financial flows such as remittances (see Adams and Page, 2005).”
Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China (2011, background): “While the impact of remittances on migrants’ home communities have been documented extensively (Adams and Page 2005; Liu and Reilly 2004; Niimi, Pham and Reilly 2009; Gupta, Pattillo and Wagh 2009), the influence of migration on non-income dimensions of well-being of the left-behind population has…”
Reverse remittances in the migration–development nexus: two-way flows between Ghana and the Netherlands (2011, background): “Similarly, New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) studies look at the effects of migration on alleviating poverty in receiving households (Adams and Page, 2005) or insurance effects (Lucas and Stark, 1985).”
Remittances and temporary migration (2010, background): “1 See e.g. Adams and Page (2005), Adams (2006) and A 2 Germany is the third largest source country of remi States and Saudi Arabia, see Ratha (2003).”
School Attendance, Child Labour, and Remittances from International Migration in El Salvador (2011, background): “Moreover, remittances constitute the second most important source of external funding in developing countries, following foreign direct investment (Adams and Page, 2005).”
Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, background): “In perhaps the broadest study, Adams and Page ( 2005 ) use the results of household surveys in 71 developing countries to analyse the impact of international remittances on poverty.”
Impact of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction amongst CIS countries (2019, methodology): “For instance, Adams and Page (2005) studied a set of 71 developing countries, finding that a 10% increase of migrant remittances leads to a 1.9% decline in the level of poverty.”
What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (2007, background): “At the cross national level there are, to the best of our knowledge, only two recent studies (Adams and Page, 2005, and World Economic Outlook, 2005) that have looked at this issue.”