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Quantifying the Impacts of Capturing Territory from the Government in the Republic of Yemen / Tandon, Sharad.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Tandon, Sharad.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armed Conflict.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Crime and Society.
- Food Prices.
- Fragility.
- Inequality.
- Labor Markets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Price Shock.
- Social Development.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Welfare Impact.
- Local Subjects:
- Armed Conflict.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Crime and Society.
- Food Prices.
- Fragility.
- Inequality.
- Labor Markets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Price Shock.
- Social Development.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Welfare Impact.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (42 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper estimates the welfare change arising from the capture of the Republic of Yemen's capital in 2014, using a multi-themed household survey conducted as the capital was captured. Despite the little violence in this setting, the increase in fragility resulted in a large decline in household welfare driven by both a decline in income and an increase in food prices. Beyond traditional welfare metrics, women were affected by the fragility more so than men, where there was a nearly universal drop in women's decision-making ability that did not differ based on a woman's bargaining position in the household. Furthermore, this decline in decision making was immediate, and did not continue to worsen in the months towards the end of the period when household welfare dropped the most. Lastly, the tumultuous setting had implications for individuals' ability to report their subjective welfare in accordance with their unambiguous decline in traditional welfare metrics.
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