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To contribute in filling these knowledge gaps, the objectives of this paper are to: (1) more firmly establish the causal effects of lead on household consumption levels and poverty, accounting for both the direct effects of Pb-related sicknesses and the influences of behavioral adaptations; and ...
Poverty among women in Ghana is not limited to only those in the slums but also those rural communities. However, the different dynamics in the two communities accounts for a worse situation experienced by those in the slums. Although women in rural Ghana also face high levels of poverty, ...
This is because—for given levels or changes in poverty rates—a larger pro-poor program does more good than a smaller pro-poor program. After all, the end goal of a pro-poor program is not to have a high poverty rate among new participants nor a high rate of exit from poverty among...
Infant mortality in Zambia: socioeconomic and demographic correlates. Biodemography Soc Biology. 2003; 50(1 & 2): 148–166. Article Google Scholar Madise NJ, Diamond ID. Determinants of infant mortality in Malawi: an analysis to control for death clustering within families. J Biosoc Sci. ...
In Zambia, an increase of malaria incidence was correlated to unusual rainfalls between 2008 and 2010 [52] and in Papua New Guinea, the seasonality of malaria was related to the rainfall in two different patterns according to the region. A decrease of rain was associated with a decrease in ...
Malama S, Muma JB, Godfroid J: A review of tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Zambia. Infect Dis Poverty. 2013, 2 (1): 13-10.1186/2049-9957-2-13. Article PubMed Central PubMed Google Scholar Tang S, Ehiri J, Long Q: China's biggest, most neglected health ...
Overall livelihood levels move upward when people choose one or more higher-return livelihood strategies and downward when they choose lower-return strategies [87]. For ecologically fragile mountainous areas such as Rongshui County, livelihood strategies are highly dependent on agricultural resources and ...
The next stage in this method was to transform the numbers to scores representing poverty levels. The qualitative rankings were quantified using the following equation adapted from Ravnborg et al. [37] as follows: S " pA ´ 1q{pP ´ 1q ˆ 100 (1) where S = Well-being score; A...
In the mainstream literature on developed world ‘fuel poverty’, the dynamics that underpin the condition are mainly identified within the narrow triad of low household incomes, high energy prices, and inadequate levels of energy efficiency. But these are only part of the factors that describe the...