Transferts de fonds des migrants, pauvreté et inégalités au Mali. Analyse à partir de trois scénarios contrefactuels

Flore Gubert, Thomas Lassourd and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Revue économique, 2010, vol. 61, issue 6, 1023-1050

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. Classification JEL : F24, O15, O55

JEL-codes: F24 O15 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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