A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by … poverty measures to include a temporal dimension. Using panel data from rural India, we show how conventional poverty measures … can distort understandings of poverty: exposure to poverty is wider and more common than typically measured, and poverty …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …