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20181210070932.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2005399841 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
BD-DhBPA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HG3881.5.W57 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
332.042409667 |
| Item number |
ADR 2006 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Adams, Richard H. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108794 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Remittances and poverty in Ghana / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Richard H. Jr. Adams. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Washington, D.C. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
World Bank, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
41 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Policy research working paper ; |
| Volume/sequential designation |
3838 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Title from PDF file as viewed on 2/7/2006. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the poverty reduction depends on how poverty is being measured. The author finds that poverty is reduced more when international, as opposed to internal, remittances are included in household income, and when poverty is measured by the more sensitive poverty measures-poverty gap and squared poverty gap. For example, the squared poverty gap measure shows that including international remittances in household expenditure (income) reduces the severity of poverty by 34.8 percent, while including internal remittances in such income reduces the severity of poverty by only 4.1 percent. International remittances reduce the severity of poverty more than internal remittances because of the differential impact of these two types of remittances on poor households. Households in the poorest decile group receive 22.7 percent of their total household expenditure (income) from international remittances, as opposed to only 13.8 percent of such income from internal remittances. When these "poorest of the poor" households receive international remittances, their income status changes dramatically and this in turn has a large effect on any poverty measure-like the squared poverty gap-that considers both the number and distance of poor households beneath the poverty line. "--World Bank web site. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE |
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| Additional physical form available note |
Also available in print. |
| 538 ## - SYSTEM DETAILS NOTE |
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| System details note |
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| 538 ## - SYSTEM DETAILS NOTE |
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| System details note |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Emigrant remittances |
| Geographic subdivision |
Ghana. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
11554 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Poverty |
| Geographic subdivision |
Ghana. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108795 |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
World Bank. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108796 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Policy research working papers (Online) ; |
| Volume/sequential designation |
3838. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108797 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |