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Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct (damage to or loss of assets or property) and...
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policy. A critical dimension to poverty dynamics is vulnerability which conceptually pertains to the risk of future poverty …. This study continued previous work that involves estimating the vulnerability level of households to income poverty using a … well as the country's official poverty lines. The vulnerability assessment in this study provides inputs to forward …
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The idea that resilience plays a role in mitigating the effects of disaster and climate change is be- coming widespread … across the development community. Consequently, the concept of resilience has been translated into actionable metrics. In … Vastatrix (leaf rust). This covari- ate (and exogenous) shock provides a unique opportunity to: a) check if greater resilience …
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Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … vulnerability. A theoretical framework is developed to examine the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …
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