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Vulnerability to Drought and Food Price Shocks : Evidence from Ethiopia
Hill, Ruth Vargas - 2017
data with objective drought and price information to quantify the causes of vulnerability to poverty in Ethiopia. Previous … against lack of rainfall and sudden increases in food prices. A moderate drought causes a 9 percent reduction in consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966917
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Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to...
Porter, Catherine - 2017
vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to … expenditure/consumption outcomes, onto a forward-looking view of drought risk. The paper outlines the CAT risk modeling framework … construction. Results for a regression model are presented, estimating ex-post drought impacts on consumption for heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968739
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Early Warning, Early Action : The Use of Predictive Tools in Drought Response Through Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
Drechsler, Mareile Beate Stephanie - 2017
This paper investigates the use of early warning tools as part of Ethiopia's Disaster Risk Management framework … early warning framework and its use that could facilitate greater timeliness of drought response. The paper argues that … enable early action during the onset of a drought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968740
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Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines
Safir, Abla - 2017
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/10012974065
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Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan's Transition
Floreani, Vincent - 2017
Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially in the regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this paradox by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level over period 2007-14...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967496
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Income Shocks and Conflict : Evidence from Nigeria
Abidoye, Babatunde Oluwakayode - 2017
This paper extends the micro evidence on the impact of income shocks on civil conflict using data across Nigerian states over the past decade. The paper uses an innovative empirical strategy matching household survey, oil production, and domestic and international price data to capture three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972046
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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2017
Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness ?management and delivery of aid ? bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975294
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Household Responses to Shocks in Rural Ethiopia : Livestock as a Buffer Stock
Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017
the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971851
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Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
Yamano, Takashi - 2017
Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966159
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Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market Process
Collier, Paul - 2017
The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973218