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Examination of Intense Climate-related Disasters in the Asia-Pacific

Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2012

The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in publicly available databases for the world,...

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Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households

Bali Swain, Ranjula; Floro, Maria - 2007

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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Openness, Specialisation and Vulnerability of the Nordic Countries

Kaitila, Ville; Virkola, Tuomo - 2014

about trade openness, specialisation and vulnerability. While we do find that the Nordic countries are open economies … vulnerability. …

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Reducing vulnerability through microfinance: Evidence from Indian self help group program

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Floro, Maria - 2010

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

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Microfinance, vulnerability and risk in low income households

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Floro, Maria Sagrario - In: International review of applied economics 28 (2014) 5, pp. 539-561

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Can health-insurance help prevent child labor? : an impact evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - In: Journal of health economics 39 (2015), pp. 51-59

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The most effective means of social protection? : an evaluation of the impact of conditional cash transfers on schooling and child labour in Peru

Tercelli, Ilaria - In: Basic income studies : BIS ; an international journal … 8 (2013) 2, pp. 173-202

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Are remittances and foreign aid a hedge against food price shocks in developing countries?

Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Ntsama Etoundi, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 54 (2014), pp. 81-98

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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?

Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

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COVID-19 pandemic policies: assessing the vulnerability of ASEAN+3 economies to exit risks

Choo, Edmond Chiang Yong; Del Rosario, Diana; … - 2022

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