The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices … could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … shock is spread through the economy, although the poor are most affected because they consume somewhat more energy in …

an adverse health shock while the better-off do, may be because the levels of food and nonfood consumption of the poor … household consumption is protected against health shocks. The results suggest that adverse health shocks - captured by negative …, remittances, and so on, from family and friends following the health shock. Medical spending is found to increase following an …

The speed, reach, and magnitude of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic sent a shockwave around the globe that tested …

At the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there was global concern about the negative indirect impacts the …