What is Chronic Poverty? The distinguishing feature of chronic poverty is extended duration in absolute poverty. Therefore, chronically poor people always, or usually, live below a poverty line, which is normally defined in terms of a money indicator (e.g. consumption, income, etc.), but could also be defined in terms of wider or subjective aspects of deprivation. This is different from the tra...

Rabies is a preventable fatal disease that causes about 61,000 human deaths annually around the world, mostly in developing countries. In Africa, several studies have shown that vaccination of pets is effective in controlling the disease. An annual vaccination coverage of 70% is recommended by the World Health Organization as a control threshold. The effective control of rabies requires vaccina...

We provide empirical evidence on the heterogeneous transmission of monetary policy to housing market across and within countries. use household-level data from Germany, Italy Switzerland together with respective shocks identified high-frequency data. find that pass-through rates newly originated (fixed-rate) mortgages is twice as strong in Germany Italy. After an accommodative shock, this assoc...

BACKGROUND Despite being entirely preventable, canine rabies still kills 55,000 people/year in developing countries. Information about local beliefs and practices can identify knowledge gaps that may affect prevention practices and lead to unnecessary deaths. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We investigated knowledge, attitudes and practices related to rabies and its prevention and control amon...

BACKGROUND Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and implementation of rabies awareness and dog vaccination programmes, and for the promotion of responsible dog ownership. This paper reports the re...

OBJECTIVES To examine the size and composition of the privately held firearm stock in the US; and to describe demographic patterns of firearm ownership and motivations for ownership. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative household telephone survey of 2770 adults aged>or=18 years living in the US, conducted in the spring of 2004. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Responses to quest...