Poverty and vulnerability in Dhaka slums : the urban livelihood study
Based upon the "Dhaka Urban Livelihood Study", Jane Pryer shows that the connections between socio-economic status and poor health and nutrition are still not fully understood. This book is about poverty and vulnerability in Bangladesh's slums.
203 pages
9780754618645, 0754618641
123337526
Contents: Introduction; Poverty and vulnerability; Study design and methods; Livelihood clusters; Marital instability; Child labour; Female workforce and the family; Investing in health; Work disabling morbidity; Strategies for coping with costs of work disabling ill health among household heads; Women's negotiation control and well-being within the households; Factors affecting adult body mass index; Investing in children's nutritional status; Intra-household distribution of nutritional vulnerability; Managing financial shocks and stresses; Policy implications; Bibliography; Index.