Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? In a study of how remittances from overseas respond to income shocks experienced by Philippine households, changes in income are found to lead to changes in remittances in the opposite direction, consistent with an insurance motivation. Roughly 60 percent of declines in household income are replaced by remitta...

background: the municipal waste landfill sites have high a potential of contaminating the ‎ environment and having effects of the human health due to waste degradation, production of leachate, carbon dioxide and ‎ methane gases. the present study aims to evaluate the location of the solid waste landfill using gis and based on the oleckno index. assessment parameters included average annual rain...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...