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Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
Book Chapter
From the book:
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
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– the Case of Bangladesh
Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and marginalized households were particularly vulnerable to such an adverse situation as their real purchasing power eroded. Several studies indicated that the adverse effects of the...
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– the Case of Zambia
The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Much of their energy goes into coping with these shocks and into day-to-day survival. While insurance and credit markets, combined with widespread social security...
Book Chapter
– Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India
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Insurance Against Poverty
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From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
Book Chapter
From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
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From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
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– Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico
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Insurance Against Poverty
Book Chapter
From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
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– Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts
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Insurance Against Poverty
Book Chapter
From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
Journal Article
Traditional poverty measures neglect several important dimensions of household welfare. In this paper we construct a measure of ‘vulnerability’ which allows us to quantify the welfare loss associated with poverty as well as the loss associated with any of a variety of different sources of...
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