Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: methodology and application to Tanzania

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

No 633395, Working Papers of LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: panel data; household surveys; internal migration; urbanization; poverty reduction; decomposable poverty indices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
Date: 2018
Note: paper number LICOS Discussion paper series 406/2018
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