Pakistan is one of only three countries that have failed to stop the transmission of poliovirus and experienced a surge … of polio paralysis in 2019. Meanwhile, misconceptions persist about the safety and efficacy of vaccines in Pakistan and … elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of remittances on the likelihood a household vaccinate its children against polio …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …

focusing on their implications on migrant remittances flows in Tunisia and Morocco. Indeed, we analyze in which countries …, where individuals depend on remittances and where this dependence intersects with economic vulnerability and inadequate … (PCA), the results show that the decline in remittances will exacerbate economic difficulties during the crisis for …