We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … interacts with formal health insurance, and whether there are differential effects by gender of the household head. We find that … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar … Cosmetic Act, 1940, is expected to overhaul the drug regulation, this study, the first of its kind, evaluates the …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …