We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …

mobilization and social spending for social development in Uganda. We provide the historical context of, and trends in, resource … mobilization (domestic and external revenue) and social spending in post-independence Uganda. After years of civil war …, mismanagement and general decline, Uganda turned a page in 1986 when NRM (National Resistance Movement) came to power. During the …