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WURKU, Seyfe  y  MARANGU, Joyce. The Impact of Remittance on Poverty: Evidence from the South African National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). AHMR [online]. 2015, vol.1, n.1, pp.78-99. ISSN 2410-7972.

The study uses two approaches to assess the impact of remittance on poverty in South Africa. The first approach compares the level of poverty between remittance receiving households and non-receiving households using the FGT index. The second approach uses the logit regression model to estimate how remittance determines the probability of falling into a state of poverty. The findings show that remittance non-receiving households have a higher head count ratio compared to remittance receiving households. The probability of remittance non-receiving households being in a state of poverty is also higher than remittance receiving households. Whereas the poverty gap is higher for remittance receiving households compared to remittance non-receiving households, both groups of households have the same poverty severity level.

Palabras clave : Migration; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke; Logistic regression; Upper Bound Poverty line.

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