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• TITLE: Remittances from Internal Migration and Poverty in Botswana

  AUTHORS: Eugene K. Campbell, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

  KEYWORDS: Botswana, Migrant, Poverty, Remittance

  JOURNAL NAME: Sociology Mind, Vol.1 No.3, July 8, 2011

  ABSTRACT: This study seeks to address the question of the existence of a relationship between remittances from internal la-bour migrants and poverty. Data was obtained from a stratified random sample survey of internal migrants and poverty in Botswana in 2004. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the migrants. A total of 1160 migrant households were enumerated. The lived poverty index method is used to estimate the level of pov-erty. It takes the social aspect of development into consideration, thereby reducing the limitations of the eco-nomic measurement of poverty. Logistic regression analysis is used to examine the remittance-poverty relation-ship. Though female-headed households are transitorily poorer than their male counterparts, there is no signifi-cant gender difference among the extremely poor. The results do not show conclusively that migrant remittances have moderating effect on poverty in the country. Policy implications are addressed.