Vulnerability in developing countries [electronic resource] / edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Naudé, Wim A.

Santos Paulino, Amelia Uliafnova.

McGillivray, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Public health--Developing countries.

Public health.

Natural disasters--Developing countries.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty.The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including

Contents:

Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction / Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray

Measuring vulnerability and poverty : estimates for rural India / Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai

Vulnerability, trust and micro-credit : the case of China's rural poor / Calum G. Turvey and Rong Kong

Assets, poverty dynamics and vulnerability : evidence from rural Tajikistan / Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete

Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe / Kate Bird and Martin Prowse

Vulnerability dynamics and HIV risk in the semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh / B. Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Ma. Cynthia Serquiña Bantilan and Devanathan Parthasarathy

Vulnerability to hunger : responding to food crises in fragile states / Colin Andrews and Margarita Flores

Vulnerability of small-island economies : the impact of "natural" disasters in the Caribbean / Martin Philipp Heger, Alex Julca and Oliver Paddison

Natural disasters and remittances : poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS / Marlene Attzs

Growth-oriented macroeconomic policies for small-island economies : lessons from Singapore / Anis Chowdhury

Vulnerability in developing countries : implications and conclusions / Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

92-808-7140-4

OCLC:

697182391