Do remittances affect poverty and inequality ? Evidence from Mali

Sandrine Mesplé-Somps (), Thomas Lessourd and Flore Gubert ()

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Indicateurs de pauvreté; Mali; Envois de fonds; Travailleurs migrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F24 O15 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Working Paper: Do remittances affect poverty and inequality? Evidence from Mali (2010)
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