Strzepek, Mark Rosegrant, and Xinshen Diao Brief 16: Risk Aversion in Low-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia …

the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by …Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor …. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have …

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), has been proposed as a pan-Africa drought risk pool to insure against drought risk in …

income variance, which in turn can cause them to pursue costly risk-coping strategies and to fall below poverty trap … thresholds. For this reason, it is important to understand how a changing distribution of risk will lead to increased … reduce their risk of negative impacts from future climaterelated shocks. While it is difficult to predict farmers' behavior …

farmers are apt to respond to future climate change-induced shocks, in particular drought. Droughts are expected to increase … in both frequency and intensity as a result of climate change. This study examines the costs of drought today and who it … living in a drought-prone environment. The types of households that were more vulnerable to climate shocks are analyzed using …

evidence that droughts may become more frequent in the future, it is clear that even without an increase in frequency, drought … disaster risk management and social protection policies will be keys for improving the resilience of countries and people to …