Vulnerability In Developing Countries

Author : Wim Naude,Amelia Santos-Paulino,Mark McGillivray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317984511

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Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries by Wim Naude,Amelia Santos-Paulino,Mark McGillivray Pdf

In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise that we cannot successfully deal with poverty unless we also deal with vulnerability—but not only vulnerability to income poverty but also vulnerability to various others hazards—such as climate, conflict, macroeconomic shocks and natural disasters. This book provide insights into new approaches in conceptualising and measuring vulnerability. It includes chapters dealing with advanced issues such as the compilation of economic vulnerability indices (EVIs) on a macro-level, of conceptualizing and measuring local vulnerability across regions in a country, and of measuring the flip-side of vulnerability, namely resilience. The book also explores the sensitivities of the various measurements of vulnerability to vulnerability lines, poverty lines, and permanent income, with consideration to some of the most vulnerable groups in developing countries. Overall, the contributions in the book consolidate new approaches as far as the concept and measurement of vulnerability on different levels and outcomes are concerned, and note directions for future research. This book was published as a special issue of Oxford Development Studies.

Author : Wim A. Naudé,Amelia Uliafnova Santos Paulino,Mark McGillivray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Natural disasters
ISBN : UOM:39015080789681

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Vulnerability in Developing Countries by Wim A. Naudé,Amelia Uliafnova Santos Paulino,Mark McGillivray Pdf

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 ...

Author : Giulia Bettin,Andrea Presbitero,Mr.Nicola Spatafora
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484385081

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Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries by Giulia Bettin,Andrea Presbitero,Mr.Nicola Spatafora Pdf

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, and adverse shocks in both source and recipient economies. We exploit a novel, rich panel data set, covering bilateral remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 107 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. We find that remittances are negatively correlated with the business cycle in recipient countries, and increase in response to adverse exogenous shocks, such as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic conditions in the source province. Nevertheless, in the presence of similar negative shocks to both source and recipient economies, remittances remain counter-cyclical with respect to the recipient country.

Author : Salim Momtaz,Muhammad Asaduzzaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429869730

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Climate Change Impacts and Women’s Livelihood by Salim Momtaz,Muhammad Asaduzzaman Pdf

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh. The research findings suggest that the distribution of livelihood capitals of vulnerable women in rural Bangladesh is heavily influenced by several climatic events, such as cyclones, floods and seasonal droughts that periodically affect the region. Women face several challenges in their livelihoods, including vulnerability to their income, household assets, lives and health, food security, education, water sources, sanitation and transportation systems, because of ongoing climate change impacts. The findings have important policy relevance for all involved in disaster and risk management, both within Bangladesh and the developing countries facing climate change impacts. Based on the research findings, the book also provides recommendations to improving the livelihoods of women in the coastal communities. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and professionals in environmental management, gender and development, and climate change governance looking at the effects of and adaptation to climate change, gender issues and natural disaster management strategies.

Author : Jonathan P. Atkins,Sonia Mazzi,Sonia V. T. Mazzi,Christopher D. Easter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110344202

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A Commonwealth Vulnerability Index for Developing Countries by Jonathan P. Atkins,Sonia Mazzi,Sonia V. T. Mazzi,Christopher D. Easter Pdf

There is growing international recognition that high economic exposure, remoteness, isolation and proneness to natural disasters all have a debilitating effect on small economies, despite the fact that some of them exhibit relatively high per capita incomes. This paper presents a Commonwealth vulnerability index that is designed to quantify vulnerability, and hence provide a means to identify vulnerable states. This index can be used as an operational tool in determining whether small states should be accorded differential treatment by the international community. It is intended as an additional criterion to augment other factors, such as per capita income, which are taken into account in reaching decisions on the treatment of certain developing countries by international organisations.

Author : Salim Momtaz,Muhammad Asaduzzaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429869747

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Climate Change Impacts and Women’s Livelihood by Salim Momtaz,Muhammad Asaduzzaman Pdf

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh. The research findings suggest that the distribution of livelihood capitals of vulnerable women in rural Bangladesh is heavily influenced by several climatic events, such as cyclones, floods and seasonal droughts that periodically affect the region. Women face several challenges in their livelihoods, including vulnerability to their income, household assets, lives and health, food security, education, water sources, sanitation and transportation systems, because of ongoing climate change impacts. The findings have important policy relevance for all involved in disaster and risk management, both within Bangladesh and the developing countries facing climate change impacts. Based on the research findings, the book also provides recommendations to improving the livelihoods of women in the coastal communities. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and professionals in environmental management, gender and development, and climate change governance looking at the effects of and adaptation to climate change, gender issues and natural disaster management strategies.

Author : Jonathan P. Atkins,Sonia V. T. Mazzi,Christopher Douglas Easter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : States, Small
ISBN : 1848597169

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A Commonwealth Vulnerability Index for Developing Countries by Jonathan P. Atkins,Sonia V. T. Mazzi,Christopher Douglas Easter Pdf

There is growing international recognition that high economic exposure, remoteness, isolation and proneness to natural disasters all have a debilitating effect on small economies, despite the fact that some of them exhibit relatively high per capita incomes. This paper presents a Commonwealth vulnerability index that is designed to quantify vulnerability, and hence provide a means to identify vulnerable states. This index can be used as an operational tool in determining whether small states should be accorded differential treatment by the international community. It is intended as an additional criterion to augment other factors, such as per capita income, which are taken into account in reaching decisions on the treatment of certain developing countries by international organisations.

Author : Daniel Bromley,Glen Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136286278

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Vulnerable People, Vulnerable States by Daniel Bromley,Glen Anderson Pdf

Over 5 decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.4 billion people who remain vulnerable. Billions of dollars have been spent on such assistance and yet little progress has been made. Persistent hunger and hopelessness threaten more than individuals and families. These conditions foster political alienation that can easily metastasize into hostility and aggression. Recent uprisings in the Middle East are emblematic of this problem. Vulnerable people give rise to vulnerable states. This book challenges the dominant catechism of development assistance by arguing that the focus on economic growth (and fighting poverty) has failed to bring about the promised "convergence." Poor people and poor countries have clearly not closed the gap on the rich industrialized world. Pursuing convergence has been a failure. Here we argue that development assistance must be reconstituted to focus on creating economic coherence. People are vulnerable because the economies in which they are embedded do not cohere. The absence of economic coherence means that economic processes do not work as they must if individual initiative is to result in improved livelihoods. Weak and vulnerable states must be strengthened so that they can become partners in the process of creating economic coherence. When economies do not cohere, countries become breeding grounds for localized civil conflicts that often spill across national borders.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264914117

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Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children Building Opportunities and Resilience by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the individual and environmental factors that contribute to child vulnerability. It calls on OECD countries to develop and implement cross-cutting well-being strategies that focus on empowering vulnerable families; strengthening children’s emotional and social skills; strengthening child protection; improving children’s health and educational outcomes; and reducing child poverty and material deprivation.

Author : M. Grimm,H. Waibel,Stephan Klasen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230306622

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Vulnerability to Poverty by M. Grimm,H. Waibel,Stephan Klasen Pdf

With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries.

Author : Amelia Santos-Paulino,Mark McGillivray,Wim Naudé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317965633

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Understanding Small-Island Developing States by Amelia Santos-Paulino,Mark McGillivray,Wim Naudé Pdf

Small island developing states (SIDS) are characterised by high economic, geographical and social vulnerability. These states are perceived as economically vulnerable, exhibiting poor economic performance, and embedding low levels of achieved well-being on most criteria. SIDS, which occupy very large parts of the world, face idiosyncratic development challenges largely owing to their susceptibility to external shocks. Still, these countries are all too often overlooked in the development research literature. Arising from a UNU-WIDER research project, this book provides in-depth research on the international dimensions of SIDS development experiences. Using a wealth of data, as well as case studies, the main topics examined comprise: aid, policies and growth; the costs of neglect, in terms of losses owing to a country falling into the fragile states group, of that country and those in its region; the composition of trade and the impact of external shocks, and the impact of remittances. The studies jointly provide valuable insights for small islands and other developing countries in the pursuit of sustainable growth and development. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Author : OECD,International Labour Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264613201

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Development Centre Studies Tackling Vulnerability in the Informal Economy by OECD,International Labour Organization Pdf

A majority of workers in the world are informally employed and contribute to economic and social development through market and non-market activities that are not protected, regulated, well-recognised or valued. This study provides an in-depth diagnosis of informality and the vulnerability prevailing in the informal economy. It explores new ideas to improve the lives of workers in the informal economy based on the ILO indicators of informality and the new OECD Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9789291461837

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Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sven Fuchs,Thomas Thaler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107154896

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Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards by Sven Fuchs,Thomas Thaler Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.

Author : Stefano Moncada,Lino Briguglio,Hilary Bambrick,Ilan Kelman,Catherine Iorns,Leonard Nurse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030827748

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Small Island Developing States by Stefano Moncada,Lino Briguglio,Hilary Bambrick,Ilan Kelman,Catherine Iorns,Leonard Nurse Pdf

This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. In their introduction, the editors contextualise the book within the current literature. They emphasise the importance of stronger links between climate change science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose communities are often excluded by mainstream research. This book is timely and appropriate, given the recent commission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a Special Report that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, “especially in islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy development opportunities” following the Paris Agreement. Coupled with this, there is also the need to support the policy community with further scientific evidence on climate change–related issues in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.