Poverty and vulnerability in Dhaka slums : the urban livelihood study

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    • Pryer, Jane A.

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Poverty and vulnerability in Dhaka slums : the urban livelihood study

Jane A. Pryer

Ashgate, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Bangladesh has low levels of urbanization but a high urban population in absolute terms, being one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Rapid urbanization in developing countries brings numerous problems and challenges; urban poverty is one important issue. This important volume presents the findings of a complex and revealing multidisciplinary cohort study conducted in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Detailed information was assembled on material, social and economic conditions, livelihoods, health and nutritional status. Together with associated qualitative work, the data forms the basis for understanding groups who are vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and stresses, and for differentiating strategies which might be adaptive in situations of hardship and scarcity. The author examines many aspects of poverty and vulnerability including livelihoods, work disabling illness and coping strategies, the female workforce, women's negotiation and well being, marital instability, child labour, and investments in health and nutrition, and utilizes the assembled material to debate on policy options.

目次

  • 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.

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