Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo
Risk, Shocks, and Human Development
1. Introduction
Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A. Seck
Part I. Conceptual Framework
2. Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know?
Stefan Dercon
3. Shocks that Cheat its Survivors: Disasters and Long-term Development
Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
4. Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing
Part II. Empirical Evidence
5. The Impact of Natural Shocks on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico
Alejandro Fuente, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
6. The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador
Indhira V. Santos
7. The Short- and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence
Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A. Seck
8. Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross-Section Data and Welfare Projection
Namsuk Kim
9. The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition
Damir Cosic, Partha Deb
10. Intergenerational Effects of the 1959–61 China Famine
Winnie Fung, Wei Ha
Part III. Behavioral and Policy Responses
11. Evidence on the Link between Migration, Climate Shocks, and Adaptive Capacity
Liliana Carvajal, Isabel Pereira
12. Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia
Wei Ha
13. Natural Hazards and Unnatural Disasters: A Survey of the Gendered Terrain of Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Relief
Roshni R. Menon
14. Public Responses to Natural Disasters: What Has Been Done and What Else Could Be Done
Alejandro Fuente
15. Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private Mechanisms and Public Policies: A Challenge for Research
Papa A. Seck
Keywords: Social Sciences, Education Policy, International Economics
- Editor
- Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo
- Seck, Papa A.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 402 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230274129
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-58785-8