Overseas Filipino workers and their impact on household poverty

Geoffrey Ducanes and Manolo I. Abella

ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization

Abstract: Examines whether the outflow of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) has resulted in poverty reduction, particular for the migrants' families.

Keywords: migrant workers.; poverty; poverty alleviation; travailleur migrant; pauvreté; lutte contre la pauvreté; trabajador migrante; pobreza; lucha contra la pobreza (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2008
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Published in Working paper series, Asian Regional Programme on Governance of Labour Migration.

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