This report on measuring poverty using household consumption summarizes the work undertaken as part of the Brazil …

-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions … interesting variations across countries. In Ethiopia, public assistance plays a more important role than ex-ante actions to …-ante actions, human capital accumulated in the household prior to disasters helps mitigate the negative effects of disasters in …

, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The empirical results show that the accumulation of biological human capital prior to disasters helps … post-disaster recovery process. In Ethiopia and Malawi, where droughts are rather frequent, exposure to highly frequent … biological human capital. Asset holdings prior to the disasters, especially the household's stock of intellectual human capital …

"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …