rural development strategies and policies in China. While existing measurement standards predominantly emphasize smallholders’ passive responses to external shocks, our “resilient smallholders” framework seeks to highlight their proactive adaptive capacity, rooted in their unique characteristics. Moreover, us...
Using the IHS4 survey responses, we computed a raw FIES score for each household by adding together the sum of all questions answered ‘yes’ as outlined by the FAO (2017b). The FIES variable was then recoded into the 3 categories outlined above. As the number of ‘food secure and mildl...
Their study further established that there are differences in the choice of adaptation strategies among the farming households and thus recommended for policy responses to complement the autonomous adaptation efforts. However, Hisali et al. (2011)’s work ignored the welfare implications of adaptation ...
Last, we test whether households clear more forest in response to shocks to compensate for income shortfalls or higher consumption needs. In terms of households’ self-stated shock responses, increased harvesting of forest or agricultural products did not rank among the primary coping strategies for...
In addition, information on the effects of price changes and the channels through which these effects are occurring are important to know in order to design the appropriate policy responses. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of high food prices on household welfare in Oman ...
In addition, information on the effects of price changes and the channels through which these effects are occurring are important to know in order to design the appropriate policy responses. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of high food prices on household welfare in Oman ...
First, I provide empirical estimates of age-specific consumption elasticities to interest rate shocks. The consumption of young people is significantly more responsive to interest rate shocks than the old, and explains most of the aggregate response. The consumption responses are driven by homeowners ...
policy volatilities and household consumption relations in twenty (20) African countries using the panel structural vector auto-regressive (PSVAR) estimation technique. We took cognisance of idiosyncratic and standard structural shocks responses. We allowed thoroughly ranked cross-sectional variances of ...
Conceptualising social resilience as an analogue of ecological resilience, Adger (2000: 361) defines social resilience as “the ability of communities to withstand shocks to their social infrastructure”, in our case resulting from the disruption to electricity supply. Given the interdependencies between...
to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride’s side has to pay substantial dowries to ...