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applies five risk indices: reliability, resiliency, vulnerability, drought risk index (DRI) and drought damage index (DDI …
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Based on a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation, the effects of hedging parameters namely, starting water availability (SWA), ending water availability (EWA) and hedging factor (HF) on reservoir storage performance indicators have been investigated within the storage-yield plane of over-year...
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Economic vulnerability is approached from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. While the microeconomic perspective is … impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that … there is no single approach to understanding macroeconomic vulnerability in the context of financial and economic crises in …
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Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of households' decisions to purchase micro life insurance, the most common but least investigated type of microinsurance. It uses household survey data collected in southern Ghana in 2009. Insurance participation and extent of coverage are examined against a...
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set of socio-demographic variables. Therefore, shocks perpetuate vulnerability to poverty via their effect on risk …
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Several measures of vulnerability to poverty have been suggested in the literature. In practise, only little is known … about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic … orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues. In the DFG research project "Impact of Shocks on the Vulnerability …
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paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability …
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This paper is aimed at identifying complementary sources of income for cocoa farm households in the Central West of Côte d’Ivoire. Our methodology con- sists of four successive stages: (i) a need assessment of cocoa households and specificities of the study area through a participatory...
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