Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Poverty and Vulnerability -- 2 Study Design and Methods -- 3 Livelihood Clusters -- 4 Marital Instability -- 5 Child Labour -- 6 Female Workforce and the Family -- 7 Investing in Health -- 8 Work Disabling Morbidity -- 9 Strategies for Coping with Costs of Work Disabling Ill Health among Household Heads -- 10 Women's Negotiation Control and Well-being within the Households -- 11 Factors Affecting Adult Body Mass Index -- 12 Investing in Children's Nutritional Status -- 13 Intra-household Distribution of Nutritional Vulnerability -- 14 Managing Financial Shocks and Stresses -- 15 Policy Implications -- Bibliography -- Index