Do Remittances Affect Poverty and Inequality ? Evidence From Mali
Pre-print, Working paper: Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances, which are less substitutable by additional workforce.
Author(s)
Flore Gubert, Thomas Lassourd, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
Date of publication
- 2010
Keywords JEL
Keywords
- Inequality rate
- Mali
- Poverty rate
Internal reference
- G-MonD Working Paper n°13
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1