Protecting vulnerable elderly people from risk

Are People Risk Vulnerable?

The paper reports on a within-subject experiment, with substantial monetary incentives, designed to test wether or not people are risk-vulnerable. In the experiment, subjects face a simple portfolio choice problem in which they have to invest part of their wealth in a safe and a risky asset. We elicit risk vulnerability by observing each subject’s portfolio choice in two different contexts that...

Protecting Vulnerable Road Users from Injury

In its latest global assessment of road safety, the World Health Organization (WHO) reminded us that half of the 1.2 million fatalities occurring each year on the world’s roads concern vulnerable road users (VRUs), with children and elderly being overrepresented among victims [1]. ‘‘Vulnerable road user’’ is a term applied to those most at risk in traffic, i.e. those unprotected by an outside s...

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

policies on protecting vulnerable people during disasters in iran: a document analysis

results a total of 22 documents were included in the final analysis. most of the documents referred to women, children, elderly people, poor, and villagers as vulnerable people. moreover, the documents did not provide information regarding official measures for protecting vulnerable people during different phases of disaster management. conclusions a clear and comprehensive definition of “vulne...

Protecting Vulnerable Children from Uninsured Risk: A New Role for Conditional Cash Transfer Programs?

Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Pantelis Solomon, and Renos Vakis September 2006 Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital from the shocks that affect these households. In this paper, we argue that many no...