Les transferts de fonds réduisent-ils la pauvreté et les inégalités de revenus? Une vérification empirique à travers une enquête dans le milieu rural marocain

Bouoiyour, Jamal and Miftah, Amal (2014): Les transferts de fonds réduisent-ils la pauvreté et les inégalités de revenus? Une vérification empirique à travers une enquête dans le milieu rural marocain. Published in: FEMISE Network (March 2014)

Abstract

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original database of migrants in Morocco. The survey data were collected in the region of Souss-Massa-Draa. We estimate the migrant home earnings under the assumptions of absence of migration and remittances before comparing it to the household income when the migrant leave their native countries. We find that remittances can reduce the number of poor and vulnerable household. Our findings also suggest that these remittances inflows have increased income inequality when compared with the no-migration counterfactual situation.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Remittances, Poverty and Income Inequality: What relations in rural Morocco?
• Language: French
• Keywords: Income distribution, Morocco, Poverty, Remittances.
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F24 - Remittances; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R29 - Other

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