Climate change poses a substantial threat to agricultural sustainability globally. Agriculture
is a vital component of the gross domestic production of developing countries. The …

In the economic literature on poverty, various methods have been proposed for measuring a
phenomenon known as 'vulnerability'. However, after more than a quarter century of …

Using data collected before and after the catastrophic flooding that took place in northern
Bangladesh in 2014, this paper contributes to the growing evidence on the factors …

Increasing attention is now being paid to poverty dynamics in developing countries. This
work links the extent to which households smooth consumption or smooth assets given …

The increasing recognition that there are considerable flows into and out of poverty (Baulch
and Hoddinott, 2000) has focused interest in household vulnerability as the basis for a social …

A household's observed poverty level is an ex-post measure of a household's well-being (or
lack thereof). But poverty is a stochastic phenomenon and the current poverty level of a …

This paper estimates, using a large panel data set from rural Bangladesh, the effects of
health shocks on household consumption and how access to microcredit affects households' …

Households in developing countries are frequently hit by severe idiosyncratic and covariate
shocks leading to high consumption volatility. A household's currently observed poverty …

Abstract Families in developing countries face enormous financial risks from major illness
both in terms of the cost of medical care and the loss in income associated with reduced …

We use survey data to investigate how urban households in Ethiopia coped with the food
price shock in 2008. Qualitative data indicate that the high food price inflation was by far the …