Title: Worker Remittances and Inequality in Rural Egypt
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Adams, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 38, Number 1Oct., 1989 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/451775 Views: 58Total views on this site Citations: 89Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1989 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Richard Disney, Andy McKay, C Rashaad Shabab Household inequality and remittances in rural Thailand: a life-cycle perspective, Oxford Economic Papers 38 (Jul 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpac025Sudan Zhao, Yongmu Jiang Heterogeneous effects of rural–urban migration and migrant earnings on land efficiency: Empirical evidence from China, Land Use Policy 115 (Apr 2022): 106003.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106003Chhavi Tiwari, Sankalpa Bhattacharjee, Pradeepta Sethi, Debkumar Chakrabarti Internal Migration and Rural Inequalities in India, Population Research and Policy Review 38 (Mar 2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09707-5Ana Melisa Pardo Montaño, Claudio Alberto Dávila Cervantes Relación entre remesas y desigualdad: una mirada al caso de México, Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad , no.8989 (Dec 2021): 117–141.https://doi.org/10.13043/DYS.89.4Zhidong Li, Didi Rao, Moucheng Liu The Impact of China’s Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy on the Income Gap between Herder Households? 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