"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical …

capital stock might be much less severe than more permanent damage via the savings function. This has implications for the …

rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings … household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers …

The financial crisis threatens the welfare of about 160 million people in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region who … are poor or are just above the poverty line. Using pre-crisis household data along with aggregate macroeconomic outturns … countries, including the concentration of the poverty impact in selected economic sectors. Meanwhile, stress tests on household …