Covid-19: Government’s shielding scheme failed thousands of clinically extremely vulnerable people, say MPs

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Cuts in aid are linked to Ebola crisis, say MPs.

The United Kingdom must reverse its cuts to funding of health sector support in Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries devastated by the current Ebola outbreak, a group of MPs have said. A report by the International Development Committee about UK aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia has shown that the UK will cut its total financial support to the two countries by nearly a fifth, from £85.9...

COVID-19 Risk Perception and its Related Factors and Outcomes in Vulnerable Groups: A Systematic Review

Exposed and Trapped: How COVID-19 is Deepening Multidimensional Poverty for Vulnerable Populations

This letter describes the results of the authors' investigations and conclusions regarding the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the multidimensional poverty of vulnerable populations.

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...