In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and …

This paper examines how cooperation in an insurance game depends on risk preferences and the riskiness of income. It …-preserving spread or an SSD deterioration. However, (ii) no longer holds when insurance can only be incomplete, because of the interplay … independent of mean income. This paper also relates the level of cooperation to informal insurance transfers and the smoothness of …

. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To … maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic model for four different maternal healthcare services using data from … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal …

This article examined the role of resilience and resilience pillars on household food consumption differentiated by … socio-economic status. The cross-sectional data of 2228 rural households came from Zimbabwe Poverty, Income, Consumption and …. Resilience capacity improved household food consumption across all socio-economic classes, and effects are more pronounced among …

There is wide variation in how consumption is measured in household surveys, both across countries and over time. This … light on the relative influence of these various error types. The observed deviation of measured household consumption from … household food consumption. …

insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …

degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent and transitory income shocks. We find some partial insurance of permanent … income shocks with more insurance possibilities for the college educated and those nearing retirement. We find little …

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks … cases of self-insurance and the complete markets assumption. We assess the degree of insurance over and above self-insurance …-sectional distribution of consumption growth, and analyzing the way these two measures of household welfare correlate over time. We combine …