Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in …

and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

score, was significantly lower for flood-affected households. Although access to social safety nets increased food …

various weather risks. Experiencing a cyclone, flood, or drought leads to a drop of up to 25-30 percent in per capita food … consumption and around 0.4 fewer meals per day per person. Poverty increased by 12 and 17.5 percentage points in two of the three …