This study investigated the climate change vulnerability of 6,214 households in drought-prone districts Telangana state India. Principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster were used to group farm based on their level suggest a portfolio adaptation strategies. The PCA revealed presence five components from 14 key variables: (1) access irrigation; (2) credit access, landholding, income agricult...

A growing literature of poverty traps advocates that social protection can be more effective in addressing poverty dynamics if it accounts for a critical threshold, around which both equilibrium outcomes and optimal behavior bifurcate. In this paper, we account for this type of threshold, and ask whether insurance can achieve the goals of social protection. Unlike traditional publicly-provided ...

White households in the United States are far wealthier than black or Hispanic households, a disparity that remains unexplained even after taking into account income and demographic factors. This article uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine various components of aggregate wealth, including housing equity, nonhousing equity, financial assets in general, and risky assets in p...

BACKGROUND Household water treatment (HWT) can improve drinking water quality and prevent disease if used correctly and consistently by vulnerable populations. Over 1.1 billion people report treating their water prior to drinking it. These estimates, however, are based on responses to household surveys that may exaggerate the consistency and microbiological performance of the practice-key facto...

This study used 510 representative households to profile the poverty status of rural farming households in North Central Nigeria based on gender of the household heads. The Foster, Greer and Thorbecke class of weighted poverty indices as well as social indicators were used as analytical tools. The results of the study showed that the female-headed households were disadvantaged on all counts wit...

Conditional Cash Transfer programmes (CCTs), such as Progresa in Mexico or Bolsa Família in Brazil, have been compared to a " magic golden bullet in development ". A plethora of rigorous evaluations of such programmes points to a significant increase in food consumption among cash-recipient households. A topic that has not received much attention yet is the impact of cash transfer programmes on...

This paper uses longitudinal data to examine the interrelationship between two central social determinants of mental health - employment security and housing affordability. Data from ten annual waves of the longitudinal Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey (which commenced in 2000/1 and is ongoing) were analysed using fixed-effects longitudinal linear regression. Ch...

The 2007–08 food price crises caused hardship on a number of fronts in countries throughout the world. The steep rise in food prices led to economic difficulties for the poor and generated social and political turmoil in many countries. Haiti, Egypt, Bangladesh, Cote D'Ivoire, Uzbekistan, Yemen and Indonesia are among the 33 countries that saw violent food riots, demonstrations, or social unres...

Environmental hazards constitute a lot of economic development bottlenecks in Nigeria. In this study, the different forms of environmental problems facing households Ibadan were identified and composite indicators of hazard vulnerability were computed from them. Data were collected from 120 households from Ibadan metropolis using the stratified sampling method. Data were analyzed with the Facto...

In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood-prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon the steadily growing amount of literature in this field we develop and test our own analytical mod...