This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...

BACKGROUND Consuming unsafe water results in infections that lead to illness or death from water borne diseases. Though there is an increasing effort from Ethiopian government to access safe water still there are households with limited access of safe water as a result, they depend on rain, well and spring water source for domestic use. However, the water treatment practice with the available t...

Abstract Food security remains a major sustainability challenge in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. has numerous determinants that are complex and interlinked, with one them being social capital. Social capital reflects an individual’s, household’s, or community’s networks, interactions, support systems can be mobilized times need to maintain, among others, livelihoods food security. This stud...

The goal of this paper is twofold as it aims (i) to investigate whether female headed households (FHH) can be distinguished by patterns of production and (ii) to look for the underlying causes of productivity differentials between FHH categories. Studies dealing with the question of productivity in FHH and male headed households (MHH) find that FHH are either less, equally, or more productive t...

Abstract There has been a rapid expansion in the use of payments for environmental services (PES) as key conservation finance policy. However, there is insufficient understanding how gender can affect PES implementation and outcomes. We present results from case study Viet Nam, where national programme place decade. Through panel household survey data, focus groups interviews, we examined women...

In Sri Lanka, over one in three women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in their lifetime, making it a serious public health concern. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse and neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental separation, and bullying are also widespread. Studies in Western settings have shown positive associations between ACEs and IPV per...

BACKGROUND In the absence of functional social security mechanisms for elderly people in Nigeria, elderly households are solely responsible for geriatric healthcare costs, which can lead to catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) - particularly among the poor. This study investigates the key determinants of CHE among poorly insured elderly households in Nigeria. We also offer some policy options...

nowadays, the female participation rate is known as one of the reasons of societies' development. hence, this study explores some of the effective factors such as education, marital status, age, and female-headed households on female participation probability in labor market. to achieve this goal, by using micro data of household survey in 2011, which is carried out by the statistical cent...