partnerships and unprotected sex, and HIV infection status. We controlled for demographic characteristics and household wealth … the household headship of a husband (OR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.18–0.89), but not among women living in husband-headed households … prevention, particularly for women not in a husband's household, including unmarried women and female household heads. …

This study examines the associations of neighborhood ethnic density and poverty with social cohesion and self … density among Latinos and negatively related to ethnic density among Asian Americans. Although higher neighborhood poverty is … social cohesion and covariates. Furthermore, social cohesion fully mediates the association between neighborhood poverty and …

(sustaining a vulnerable household and promoting stable parenting). The status of family members who receive a monthly disability … fulfillment of household responsibilities, stigmatizing processes are structurally altered. Through the decades, the stigmatized … labels applied to the poor have shifted: from being a symptom of racial weakness, to the culture of poverty, and now to …

Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … financial services and promoting small scale industries as well as micro enterprises and strengthening anti-poverty programmes … within the state. The two district sampled, where more or less half population are under poverty. Livelihood options are …

-term development plan and the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its multidimensionality remain a major issue in Indonesia as a … consistently since 2002, most of those escaping poverty are still vulnerable and just a small shock can send them quickly below the … poverty line. Using the PPP $2/day poverty line as a vulnerability measure, the World Bank (2006) found that 45% of …

The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …

welfare by 0.39 percent. Also, the national head-count poverty would fall by 1.24 percent. The poorer household groups are …This paper has explored the relationship between infrastructure and growth and poverty in the context of the Bangladesh … extremely significant role in promoting growth and alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. The construction of the district …

for other factors to account for around two-fifths of total household expenditure inequality in Indonesia. If poverty …This paper decomposes changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components, and employs several pro-poor growth … concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a …