Remittances, sanitation and child malnutrition in middle-income countries: A case study from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Manh Hung Do, Dil Rahut and Duy Linh Nguyen

World Development, 2025, vol. 190, issue C

Abstract: •Remittances increase the propensity of owning a flush toilet.•Owning a flush toilet reduces children’s underweight, wasting, and stunting.•Female children and children from poor households benefit more.•Children from lower educated mothers benefit less.•Improving rural education and public water systems reduces child undernutrition.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106975

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