Matthew Cummins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3805667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Cummins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummins |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Children's Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7768-985X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aid cut, lives lost
In January 2025, the US government suspended and subsequently terminated the majority of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs. This study estimates the impact of that decision on maternal mortality in six highly vulnerable countries in West and Central Africa: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. Using a deterministic model grounded in regional health expenditure elasticities, the …
The Austerity Decade 2010-20
In the wake of the financial, food and fuel crises, a fourth ‘F’ shockwave hit the global economy in 2010: fiscal adjustment. It would mark the onset of a prolonged period of budget cuts that is now projected to continue at least through 2020 in high-income and developing countries alike. This article: (i) examines International Monetary Fund (IMF) government spending projections for 187 countries from 2005 to 2020, indicating a decade of austeri…
Austerity Measures in Developing Countries
This study examines how austerity measures may have adversely affected children and women in a sample of 128 developing countries in 2012. It relies on International Monetary Fund (IMF) fiscal projections and IMF country reports to gauge how social assistance and other public spending decisions have evolved since the start of the global economic crisis. The study finds that most developing countries boosted total expenditures during the first pha…
Introduction
Growth in the use of real-time digital information for monitoring has been rapid in developing countries across all the social sectors, and in the health sector has been remarkable. Commonly these Real Time Monitoring (RTM) initiatives involve partnerships between the state, civil society, donors and the private sector. There are differences between partners in understanding objectives, and further divergence often occurs due to adoption of speci…
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable
This article reviews two Real Time Monitoring (RTM) initiatives in Uganda that utilise RapidSMS technology. mTrac uses mobile phones to transmit local health information, including disease surveillance, malaria treatment and drug stocks. This electronic?based reporting system replaced a paper?based one, enabling actionable information to be delivered more quickly. Its early success in Uganda suggests that similar systems could be introduced elsew…
Is There a Numbers versus Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade‐off between the size of low‐skilled migrant labor populations and the rights and entitlements accorded to them. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of both the stock and flow of immigrants in a number of existing databases. Using data on migrants’ rights from three recent studies—the Economist Intelligence Unit’…
A Rejoinder to Ruhs
Our paper in this issue sets out to do a simple task: to empirically evaluate the hypothesis of an inverse relationship between the number of low‐skilled migrant workers and their rights using existing cross‐national data. In his reply, Martin Ruhs argues that our criticism is unconvincing because our data on numbers do not adequately capture the object of his hypothesis—which refers to the rights of persons admitted with the primary purpose of e…
Austerity Measures in Developing Countries
This study examines how austerity measures may have adversely affected children and women in a sample of 128 developing countries in 2012. It relies on International Monetary Fund (IMF) fiscal projections and IMF country reports to gauge how social assistance and other public spending decisions have evolved since the start of the global economic crisis. The study finds that most developing countries boosted total expenditures during the first pha…
Is There a Numbers versus Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade‐off between the size of low‐skilled migrant labor populations and the rights and entitlements accorded to them. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of both the stock and flow of immigrants in a number of existing databases. Using data on migrants’ rights from three recent studies—the Economist Intelligence Unit’…
The Austerity Decade 2010-20
In the wake of the financial, food and fuel crises, a fourth ‘F’ shockwave hit the global economy in 2010: fiscal adjustment. It would mark the onset of a prolonged period of budget cuts that is now projected to continue at least through 2020 in high-income and developing countries alike. This article: (i) examines International Monetary Fund (IMF) government spending projections for 187 countries from 2005 to 2020, indicating a decade of austeri…
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable
This article reviews two Real Time Monitoring (RTM) initiatives in Uganda that utilise RapidSMS technology. mTrac uses mobile phones to transmit local health information, including disease surveillance, malaria treatment and drug stocks. This electronic?based reporting system replaced a paper?based one, enabling actionable information to be delivered more quickly. Its early success in Uganda suggests that similar systems could be introduced elsew…
A Rejoinder to Ruhs
Our paper in this issue sets out to do a simple task: to empirically evaluate the hypothesis of an inverse relationship between the number of low‐skilled migrant workers and their rights using existing cross‐national data. In his reply, Martin Ruhs argues that our criticism is unconvincing because our data on numbers do not adequately capture the object of his hypothesis—which refers to the rights of persons admitted with the primary purpose of e…
Is There a Numbers versus Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade‐off between the size of low‐skilled migrant labor populations and the rights and entitlements accorded to them. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of both the stock and flow of immigrants in a number of existing databases. Using data on migrants’ rights from three recent studies—the Economist Intelligence Unit’…
A Rejoinder to Ruhs
Our paper in this issue sets out to do a simple task: to empirically evaluate the hypothesis of an inverse relationship between the number of low‐skilled migrant workers and their rights using existing cross‐national data. In his reply, Martin Ruhs argues that our criticism is unconvincing because our data on numbers do not adequately capture the object of his hypothesis—which refers to the rights of persons admitted with the primary purpose of e…
Austerity Measures in Developing Countries
This study examines how austerity measures may have adversely affected children and women in a sample of 128 developing countries in 2012. It relies on International Monetary Fund (IMF) fiscal projections and IMF country reports to gauge how social assistance and other public spending decisions have evolved since the start of the global economic crisis. The study finds that most developing countries boosted total expenditures during the first pha…
Introduction
Growth in the use of real-time digital information for monitoring has been rapid in developing countries across all the social sectors, and in the health sector has been remarkable. Commonly these Real Time Monitoring (RTM) initiatives involve partnerships between the state, civil society, donors and the private sector. There are differences between partners in understanding objectives, and further divergence often occurs due to adoption of speci…
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable
This article reviews two Real Time Monitoring (RTM) initiatives in Uganda that utilise RapidSMS technology. mTrac uses mobile phones to transmit local health information, including disease surveillance, malaria treatment and drug stocks. This electronic?based reporting system replaced a paper?based one, enabling actionable information to be delivered more quickly. Its early success in Uganda suggests that similar systems could be introduced elsew…
The Austerity Decade 2010-20
In the wake of the financial, food and fuel crises, a fourth ‘F’ shockwave hit the global economy in 2010: fiscal adjustment. It would mark the onset of a prolonged period of budget cuts that is now projected to continue at least through 2020 in high-income and developing countries alike. This article: (i) examines International Monetary Fund (IMF) government spending projections for 187 countries from 2005 to 2020, indicating a decade of austeri…
Aid cut, lives lost
In January 2025, the US government suspended and subsequently terminated the majority of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs. This study estimates the impact of that decision on maternal mortality in six highly vulnerable countries in West and Central Africa: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. Using a deterministic model grounded in regional health expenditure elasticities, the …
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Developing country (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Global Health Care Issues (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Austerity (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)