BACKGROUND An understanding of the complex relationship between health status and welfare is crucial for critical policy interventions. However, the focus of most policies in developing regions has been on current welfare to the neglect of forward-looking welfare analysis. The absence of adequate research in the area of future poverty or vulnerability to poverty has also contributed to the focu...

Using panel data on urban households, we investigate which groups were most vulnerable to the large food price shocks that occurred between 2004 and 2008 in Ethiopia. Econometric results for consumption growth models and for a model of the perceived severity of food price shocks indicate that the type of household most vulnerable to the food price inflation has few household members, a high dep...

rural households in nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make informed decision on secured coping strategies which is further aggravated by some households’ specific socio-economic characteristics. attempts were made to identify shocks being faced by households’ heads and coping strategies. multistage sampling technique was used to select 80 respondents and well ...

Assessment of income shock and households’ vulnerability provides an excellent way of designing appropriate marginal reforms to tackle welfare problems among some vulnerable groups. This study used the three stage Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) to analyze expected poverty in Nigeria, using the 2004 NLSS data. It was found that high agricultural input price and lack of capital to expan...

introduction: iran is constantly exposed to natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and drought. in the meantime, drought is the major natural disaster which leads to numerous losses in agriculture and water resources, and this phenomenon is slow and creeping.available evidence suggests that drought management is based on crisis management. as the present management in our country is base...

INTRODUCTION Predicting the household's ability to cope with adult illness and death can be complicated in low-income countries with high HIV prevalence and multiple other stressors and shocks. This study explored the link between stage of the household in the life cycle and the household's capacity to cope with illness and death of adults in rural Uganda. METHODS Interviews focusing on life ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the economic burden of malaria in a rural Tanzanian setting and identify any differences by socioeconomic status and season. METHODS Interviews of 557 households in south eastern Tanzania between May and December 2004, on consumption and malaria-related costs. RESULTS Malaria-related expenses were significantly higher in the dry, non-malarious season than in the rainy...