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Risk, Shocks, and Human Development

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know?
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    Chapter 3 Shocks that Cheat its Survivors: Disasters and Long-term Development
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    Chapter 4 Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
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    Chapter 5 The Impact of Natural Shocks on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico
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    Chapter 6 The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador
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    Chapter 7 The Short- and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence
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    Chapter 8 Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross-Section Data and Welfare Projection
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    Chapter 9 The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition
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    Chapter 10 Intergenerational Effects of the 1959–61 China Famine
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    Chapter 11 Evidence on the Link between Migration, Climate Shocks, and Adaptive Capacity
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    Chapter 12 Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia
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    Chapter 13 Natural Hazards and Unnatural Disasters: A Survey of the Gendered Terrain of Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Relief
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    Chapter 14 Public Responses to Natural Disasters: What Has Been Done and What Else Could Be Done
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    Chapter 15 Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private Mechanisms and Public Policies: A Challenge for Research
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Chapter title
Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know?
Chapter number 2
Book title
Risk, Shocks, and Human Development
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2010
DOI 10.1057/9780230274129_2
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-58785-8, 978-0-230-27412-9
Authors

Stefan Dercon, Dercon, Stefan

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Country Count As %
Unknown 5 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 40%
Professor 1 20%
Unknown 2 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 20%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%