In 2016, the Federal government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari established National Social Investment Program (NSIP), including Cash Transfers (CTs) to tackle poverty in country and prevent vulnerable households from falling further down line. The CTs program, known as Household Upliftment (HUP) targeted poorest poor for 6 years (2016-2022) by giving N5000 monthly “poor” across 36 ...

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies examine catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) worldwide, most focus on whole populations rather than specific vulnerable groups. This study analyzes the extent, associated factors and inequality of CHE in elderly household with chronic disease patients in China. METHODS Data were obtained from a nationally representative elderly household survey-the China...

BACKGROUND Access to adequate quantities of water has a protective effect on human health and well-being. Despite this, public health research and interventions are frequently focused solely on water quality, and international standards for domestic water supply minimums are often overlooked or unspecified. This trend is evident in Inuit and other Arctic communities even though numerous transmi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound impacts on agricultural households. We discuss how these might affect the underlying drivers of land-use decisions. First, we conceptually extend models (smallholder) decision-making to assess affects then examine effects households’ livelihoods, by drawing high-frequency phone surveys from eight African countries and a literature review. find that livelihoods...

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using Waves 1 12 of the British Household Panel Survey and find that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wide aggregate shocks have the greatest impact on cons...

Using changes in consumption as a proxy for ‘vulnerability’ we identify the characteristics associated with vulnerability around the time of the 1998 Russian financial crisis. In addition, we examine the role of formal and informal safety nets in preserving individual well being. We apply quantile regression techniques in order to identify the characteristics associated with vulnerability acros...

From 1997 through 2007, the Horizons program conducted research to inform the care and support of children who had been orphaned and rendered vulnerable by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in sub-Saharan Africa. Horizons conducted studies in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Research included both diagnostic studies exploring the circumstances of families and ...

This study constructs a multidimensional livelihood index (MLI) using data from Syrian refugees in Lebanon to identify households who are currently poor. The MLI is then used predict households' vulnerability future poverty three-stage Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) model. analysis identifies more precisely which and geographical locations vulnerable experiencing prolonged poverty. a...