The paper explores the degree to which exposure to natural disasters and poor governance (quality of governance) is associated with absolute child poverty in sixty-seven middle- and low-income countries. The data is representative for about 2.8 billion of the world´s population. Institutionalist tend to argue that many of society's ills, including poverty, derive from fragile or inefficient ins...

BACKGROUND Physical and emotional abuse of children is a large scale problem in South Africa, with severe negative outcomes for survivors. Although chronic household illness has shown to be a predictor for physical and emotional abuse, no research has thus far investigated the different pathways from household chronic illness to child abuse victimisation in South Africa. METHODS Confidential ...

T his study investigates the impact of poverty, which is the direct effect of recent economic changes, on Iranians mental health to shed more light on the poverty and mental health nexus in developing countries. For the purpose of this study, we examine the existence of a possible association between poverty and mental health in urban districts of Iran by applying a double hurdle app...

The potential successes of the Poverty Alleviation Programmes (PAPs. Which have become more or less the defining features of contemporary development strategies, raise crucial questions of institutional design. Would the successful implementation of PAPs require new and autonomous institutional designs or would they simply be integrated into the existing institutional apparatuses? The argument ...

Background & Introduction: Hunger is synonymous with poverty and both are inseparably linked. Access to food and improved nutrition constitutes an undeniable basic human right and one of the central goals of development processes aiming reduction of poverty and inequality. Reducing malnutrition is thus central to the notion of reducing poverty itself. Malnutrition is a global public health and ...

This study examines the relationship between poverty and health in time. Following the argument that time is significant for shaping the experience of being poor or not poor and growing evidence of heterogeneity in long-term patterns of poverty, we investigate whether different kinds of poverty have distinct consequences for long-term health. Using data from the 1968-1996 annual waves of the Un...

AIMS The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence in Mongolian women. METHODS The survey was administered to 5500 people in 1000 households randomly selected from two districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. RESULTS The response rate was 90.3% (total of 4967, and 3338 were women.). About 37.7% of respondents reported that they were affected by...