Vulnerability: A Micro Perspective (notice n° 159115)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | fre |
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| Personal name | Dercon, Stefan |
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| Title | Vulnerability: A Micro Perspective |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007.<br/> |
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| General note | 96 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | High downside risk to income and livelihoods is part of life in developing countries. Climatic risks, economic fluctuations, and a large number of shocks specific to individuals leave these households vulnerable to severe hardship. The paper explores the links between risk, vulnerability, and poverty, adopting a micro-level approach. Risk does not just result in variability in living standards. Increasing evidence shows that the lack of means to cope with risk and vulnerability is in itself a cause of persistent poverty and poverty traps. Risk results in strategies that avoid taking advantage of profitable but risky opportunities. Shocks destroy human, physical, and social capital, limiting opportunities further. The result is that risk is an important constraint on broad-based growth in living standards in many developing countries. It is a relatively ignored facet in the drafting of anti-poverty policies and efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The paper discusses conceptual issues, the evidence, and the implications for policy. |
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| Note | Revue d’économie du développement | 14 | 4 | 2007-01-30 | p. 79-118 | 1245-4060 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-economie-du-developpement-2006-4-page-79?lang=en">https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-economie-du-developpement-2006-4-page-79?lang=en</a> |
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