Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90752 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 13/2012
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual consumption in the hypothetical case of no remittance is estimated in a selection corrected estimation framework. Inequality and poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0.6% respectively.
Subjects: 
remittances
poverty
inequality
Ethiopia
JEL: 
F24
I32
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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