over 17 years with data on district-level weather shocks to quantify the impact of drought on local prices and how this …, but it shows that it is possible for rainfall shocks to have no inflationary impacts in low income economies. Inflationary …

understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of …Severe weather shocks recurrently hit Malawi, and they adversely affect the incomes of many farm households as well as … small businesses. With climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase further. A clear …

report Resilient Shores: Vietnam's Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk (Rentschler and others 2020) …This paper provides a high-level assessment of Vietnam's sea dike system and its prescribed dike safety standards. The … capital investment is necessary to meet the standards, mainly in the Red River Delta. It also shows that current safety …

to Resilient Shores: Vietnam's Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk (Rentschler and others, 2020) …This paper presents a multisectoral risk assessment, analyzing natural risks faced by key drivers of socioeconomic … development in coastal Vietnam. The analysis quantifies the exposure of assets and economic activity to the following natural …

systematically larger for rice-producing households, generating a quasi-random source of variation in the size of the shock driven by … evidence of decreased agricultural investment, increased investment in non-agricultural businesses, and increased migration as …