"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 % for the two Algerian regions, with the effect in Idjeur being twice as large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong positive impact on very poor families in Idjeur but much less in Nedroma, where poor families suffer from a “double loss” due to the absence of their migrants and the fact that the latter do not send money home.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7747

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Remittances ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Subject: remittances ; migration ; poverty ; inequality ; Algeria

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Margolis, David N. ; Miotti, Luis ; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub ; Oudinet, Joël
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/90065
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET