What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?

What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?

This article reports on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters, health shocks, economic shocks, and asset loss are the most commonly reported types of shock...

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Main Authors: Heltberg, Rasmus, Oviedo, Ana María, Talukdar, Faiyaz
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:
coping
economic shocks
natural disasters
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22642
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spelling okr-10986-226422021-04-23T14:04:10Z What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World? Heltberg, Rasmus Oviedo, Ana María Talukdar, Faiyaz coping economic shocks natural disasters This article reports on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters, health shocks, economic shocks, and asset loss are the most commonly reported types of shocks and, especially for the poor, often result in ‘bad’ coping responses that may perpetuate vulnerability. The information culled from these survey modules falls short of expectations in several ways. 2015-09-21T19:33:45Z 2015-09-21T19:33:45Z 2015-03-06 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22642 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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topic coping
economic shocks
natural disasters
spellingShingle coping
economic shocks
natural disasters
Heltberg, Rasmus
Oviedo, Ana María
Talukdar, Faiyaz
What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
description This article reports on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters, health shocks, economic shocks, and asset loss are the most commonly reported types of shocks and, especially for the poor, often result in ‘bad’ coping responses that may perpetuate vulnerability. The information culled from these survey modules falls short of expectations in several ways.
format Journal Article
author Heltberg, Rasmus
Oviedo, Ana María
Talukdar, Faiyaz
author_facet Heltberg, Rasmus
Oviedo, Ana María
Talukdar, Faiyaz
author_sort Heltberg, Rasmus
title What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
title_short What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
title_full What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
title_fullStr What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
title_full_unstemmed What Do Household Surveys Really Tell Us About Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?
title_sort what do household surveys really tell us about risk, shocks, and risk management in the developing world?
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22642
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