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The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa
Baquie, Sandra; Calcutt, Evie Isabel Neall; Gascoigne, Jon - 2024
This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa …, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579952
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Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies : Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation
Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick; Vakis, Renos - 2012
based on randomized assignment, and analyze how impacts vary by exposure to exogenous drought shocks. The results show that … both complementary interventions provide full protection against drought shocks two years after the end of the intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552157
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Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines
Safir, Abla; Piza, Sharon Faye; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2013
Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560182
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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Br??ckner, Markus - 2013
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557088
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Agriculture as a Sector of Opportunity for Young People in Africa
Brooks, Karen; Zorya, Sergiy; Gautam, Amy - 2013
This paper sheds light on how to harvest the "youth dividend" in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating jobs in agriculture …. The agriculture that attracts the youth will have to be profitable, competitive, and dynamic. These are the same … characteristics needed for agriculture to deliver growth, to improve food security, and to preserve a fragile natural environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559505
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Social Cohesion and Refugee-Host Interactions : Evidence from East Africa
Betts, Alexander; Omata, Naohiko; Sterck, Olivier; … - 2022
Building upon the literature on contact theory, this paper explores the role of inter-group interaction in shaping social cohesion between refugees and host communities in East Africa. It draws upon first-hand quantitative (n=16,608) and qualitative data collected from refugees and nearby host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255288
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Global Food Price Inflation : Implications for South Asia, Policy Reactions, and Future Challenges
Ahmed, Sadiq - 2012
vulnerability of the poor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552234
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Isolation and Subjective Welfare : Evidence from South Asia
Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - 2012
Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers are associated with responses to questions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552318
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Unequal Households or Communities? : Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia
Brown, Caitlin; Kandpal, Eeshani; Lee, Jean; Williams, … - 2022
Half of all undernourished women and children in South Asia are not found in the bottom 40 percent of wealth-poor households. This paper quantifies the extent to which this inequality in nutritional status arises within households versus between households. In contrast to previous literature, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254896
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Making Regional Cooperation Work for South Asia's Poor
Ahmed, Sadiq; Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the world. South Asia has opened its door to the rest of the world but it remains closed to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552525