Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

remittances, primarily from male workers overseas. Since human capital is the most important asset for the poor, the escalation in …

reliance on labor remittances exacerbated Tajikistan’s food insecurity and the vulnerability of its households. This study …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the …

This paper examines the direct, first-rounds impact of two types of remittances—internal and external remittances …—on income distribution and asset accumulation in rural Pakistan. Using income decomposition techniques on a three-year panel … household data set, the paper finds that internal remittances have a positive effect on equity and that external remittances …

Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high … policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the … between various institutions influencing the water sector in Pakistan. Group interviews were conducted with national …

policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …