Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they
handle with risk‐management and risk‐coping strategies, including self‐insurance through …

High-income risk is part of life in developing countries. Climatic risks, economic fluctuations,
and a large number of individual-specific shocks leave these households vulnerable to …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters
on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam, and subsequently examines …

We estimate the impacts of drought, as defined by the US Drought Monitor (USDM), on crop
yields and farm income in the United States during the 2001–2013 time period. Our …

Africa has had slow growth and a massive exodus of capital. In many respects it has been
the most capital-hostile region. We review and interpret the aggregate-level and …

This paper assesses global water stress at a finer temporal scale compared to conventional
assessments. To calculate time series of global water stress at a monthly time scale, global …

This paper explores the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in rural
Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage and inter …

The paper provides fresh empirical evidence on the adaptation process in Niger rural
communities using original longitudinal socio-economic panel data merged with granular …

This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of child health, growth in
height, drawing on a unique household panel data set from rural Zimbabwe. We find that …

Based on data for almost 300 households this paper explores associations among income
diversification, household perceptions of livelihood risks, and changes in consumption …