remittances from internal migration and poverty in botswana汇款从内部迁移和贫困在博茨瓦纳.pdf

Sociology Mind 2011. Vol.1, No.3, 130-137 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/sm.2011.13016 * Remittances from Internal Migration and Poverty in Botswana 1 2 Eugene K. Campbell , Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala 1Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana, Botswana; 2University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, England. Email: campbelleugene@ th rd th Received April 19 , 2011; revised May 23 , 2011; accepted June 24 , 2011. 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 r