Author: Andinet DelelegnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Risk management
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Informal Risk Sharing Strategies and Poverty Dynamics in Rural Ethiopia
Author: Andinet DelelegnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Risk management
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
An assessment of IFPRIS work in Ethiopia 19952010: Ideology, influence, and idiosyncrasy
Author: Mitch Renkow, and Roger SladePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy
Author: Getnet AlemuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
Author: Marcel FafchampsPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781950685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk coping strategies among today's poor rural societies. Ways in which these strategies may be re-examined and improved by governments and international organisations are proposed.
Human Capital and Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Author: Wubet KifleCommercialization of Smallholder Agriculture in Some Areas of Ethiopia
Author: Samuel GebreselassiePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Insurance Against Poverty
Author: World Institute for Development Economics ResearchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199276838
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Much of their energy goes into coping with these shocks and into day-to-day survival. While insurance and credit markets, combined with widespread social security, provide an important cushion against poverty in rich countries, the need for immediate survival may lock the poor into persistent poverty in developing countries.The poor in developing countries do have informal mechanisms to cope with risk and misfortune. These are based on income diversification, risk avoidance, self-insurance by saving together with family, and community-based mutual assistance. Nevertheless, the scope of these mechanisms remains limited. Repeated individual-specific shocks such as illness or pests, or covariate risks associated with drought, flood, or recession, undermine the ability of individuals and their families to cope withrisk.We now know much more about vulnerability to risk and how poor people cope. Even more importantly, we have learned much about the large long-term consequences of these risks, which condemns many to persistent poverty and excludes them from economic growth. But there is much that can be done. The micro-level studies that underpin this book offer new insights on how effective public action could be more effective in protecting the vulnerable against persistent poverty. Policy should focus onproviding a comprehensive menu of ex-ante and post-crisis protection mechanisms, including new forms of insurance, savings, safety nets, and the means to strengthen the poor's asset base. Local communities have a big role to play: public funds should not be used to replace indigenous community-basedsupport networks; rather they should be used to build on the strengths of these networks to ensure broader and more effective protection.With numerous thematic chapters and case studies of both best practice and of failure, from a mix of low-income and middle-income countries across the developing world, this book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and protection provision, and makes an important contribution to the topical field of insurance and risk.
Intra-household Gender-bias in Children's Educational Investment in Rural Ethiopia
Author: Andinet DelelegnPublisher:
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
First African Millennium International Trade Fair
Author: Shock Waves
Author: Stephane HallegattePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464806748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.