Work-Related Migration and Poverty Reduction in Nepal
By Michael Lokshin, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski, E. Glinskaya. 2007
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Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, the authors measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various scenarios for the different levels of work-related migration, comparing observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in Nepal occurring between 1995 and 2004 can be attributed to increased levels of work-related migration and remittances sent home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty reduction, internal migration also played an important role. The findings show that strategies for economic growth and poverty reduction in Nepal should consider aspects of the dynamics of domestic and international migration.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, methodology): “( 2010 ) in Nepal, Adams ( 2006 ) in Ghana, and Taylor et al.”
- Reconsidering the links between poverty, international labour migration, and agrarian change: critical insights from Nepal (2016, background): “Several studies have indicated that labour migration has been a key factor in reducing poverty in Nepal (Blaikie, Cameron, and Seddon 2002; Lokshin, Bontch-Osmolovski, and Glinskaya 2007).”
- The economic impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment in Indonesia (2010, background): “Changes in rainfall have also been used before in the literature as an instrumental variable in the cases of Mexico, the Philippines, and Guatemala (Munshi, 2003; Yang and Choi, 2007; 13 Adams and Cuecuecha, forthcoming).”
- The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ghana (2008, background): “…The following studies have analyzed the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Latin America and Asia: Acosta et al (2006) on Latin America, Lokshin et al (2007) on Nepal, Adams on Guatemala (2004), Taylor, Mora and Adams on Mexico (2005) and Yang and Martinez on the Philippines (2005).”