Decomposing the Contribution of Migration to Poverty Reduction

• Tác giả: Luc Christiaensen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 325.2 Emigration
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 324902
• Chủ đề: 1. HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS; 2. INTERNAL MIGRATION; 3. POVERTY INDICES; 4. POVERTY REDUCTION; 5. URBANIZATION

Tóm tắt

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction.