poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money …-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would …

that people living in poverty, people of color, and people with disabilities would bear the brunt of the coronavirus … framework to address discrimination and poverty. The health justice framework offers four overarching principles to prevent and … of discrimination and poverty on the social determinants of health, which in turn threaten to exacerbate the health …

Perspective from Economics -- Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier … Food Insecurity Mediated Poverty and Low Productivity Traps: Furthering Policy by Reconciling Secondary Data with Primary … and Health, Does Rationalisation of Grants Matter?.-Measurement and Determinants of Efficiency of Government and …

Workers' remittances sent to Latin America declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020 … measures, as well as travel restrictions, on remittances sent to Latin America. The results indicate that containment measures … explain the subsequent recovery of remittances. …

remittances to CAPDR and Mexico during the pre-pandemic period. However, they fail to predict the sustained growth in remittances … since June 2020, including the significant increase in the average amount remitted. Using data from over 300 remittances … modes of transmission of remittances, additional U.S. fiscal stimulus and U.S. labor market developments, especially in the …

data at the subnational level in Mexico to study the behavior of remittances during the Covid-19 pandemic. We estimate … results show that destination country conditions have been the main driver of remittances to Mexico, whereas origin country … conditions had no discernible effect on remittances during the pandemic. We also show that contractions in consumption in Mexico …