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Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …
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Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage against them. Absence of formal insurance contributes to poverty traps, as investment decisions are conflicted with risk management ones: risk-averse farmers tend to underinvest and...
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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …
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voters reward the incumbent presidential party for delivering drought relief compensation. The paper finds that receiving …
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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...
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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 …
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This paper provides an overview of the period prior to the recent global crisis, and the policies that were adopted around the world in response to the crisis. It highlights a number of key issues regarding economic and financial policies that governments have faced both globally and nationally....
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impact of drought-related national maize production shortfalls. The instrument is an index-based weather derivative contract … designed to transfer the financial risk of severe and catastrophic national drought that adversely impacts the government … and therefore production throughout the country. The index picks up the well documented historical drought events in 2005 …
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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 …
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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 …
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