Author(s)

Eugene K. Campbell, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

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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.

Botswana, Migrant, Poverty, Remittance

Campbell, E. & Kandala, N. (2011). Remittances from Internal Migration and Poverty in Botswana. Sociology Mind, 1, 130-137. doi: 10.4236/sm.2011.13016.