productive assets after shocks. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, social capital is modelled as a household …, including the accumulation of rural assets, as is the case with livestock assets in rural Uganda. Social implications – Many …

-east of Ethiopia. The period under examination (1996-2003) was marked by severe environmental shocks, including a series of … shocks on livestock capital. …

This study examines the impact of multiple shocks on assets by employing two waves of a panel data set of 360 rural … model was employed. One major finding is that climatic shocks negatively affect households ́livestock holdings - apart from … ́recovery and resilience against multiple shocks in the face of accelerating climate change. …

before the shock recover faster from shock-induced asset losses than comparable non-insured households. We find a significant …, positive and economically large effect of IBLI indemnity payments on herd size one and two years after the shock. In the medium … term - three and four years after the shock - the effect slowly vanishes. Results are robust to defining post-shock …