to be affected). Growth acceleration would also help avert deaths through more resources for disaster prevention and … to focus on key elements of a disaster reduction strategy. Countries that were prone to natural disasters in the previous … not have any effect. Deaths varied with the number of disasters; they also varied with (lagged) deaths in the previous …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India. …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … coping strategies reduce the idiosyncratic and risk component of vulnerability. Hence, an important policy implication of our …Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary … significant effects on reducing vulnerability of households in 1993 and 2004. We also applied the pseudo panel model which …

of such disasters and to insure themselves against disaster risks. If interventions do not go beyond short-term relief … recurrent catastrophes. While our evidence points to growing vulnerability to natural disasters and their grave implications for … human security, a challenge for development assistance is to combine speedy relief with durable reduction in vulnerability …

generated by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the disaster management process in the immediate aftermath … of the disaster with a focus on the two worst affected countries - Indonesia (Aceh province) and Sri Lanka. The 26 … findings points to the importance of educating the public about simple precautions in the event of a disaster and enforcement …

This paper uses a simple empirical approach to estimate vulnerability to food inadequacy using a cross-section data … are exposed to the same kind of shock. We find that the distribution of vulnerability to food inadequacy over education of … tertiary education can help reduce the food risk that households face, i.e., the risk that a household is undernourished. Thus …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … agricultural households are likely to be the most vulnerable. The geographical diversity of vulnerability is considerable, for …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … the 2001 Living Standard Measurement Survey. The incidence of inadequate food consumption and vulnerability to food …