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Risk, Shocks, and Human Development
On the Brink
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Global financial crisis, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and droughts are ever present in the history of humanity. But what does this mean for the way people live their lives – their health, their education, and their overall well-being? This book examines the effects of large shocks and their impact on human development.
The contributors to this volume provide conceptual and empirical analysis to illustrate the depth and breadth of these negative shocks and the long-lasting effects on human development for people and households. It considers the cumulative consequences on poverty reduction efforts, in the context of climate change and the global financial crisis. The book also engages with the lively debate about the policy mechanisms that are needed to protect people against such events.
This book is essential reading for all interested in human development and well-being, and development economics.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What do we Know, What do we Need to Know?
Shocks That cheat its survivors: disasters and long term development
Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
The Impact of Climatic and Geological Hazards on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico
The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador
The Short and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence
Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection
The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition
Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine
Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks and adaptive capacity
Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia
Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief
Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief
Public Responses to Climatic and Geological Hazards
Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private mechanisms and Public policies: a challenge for research
RICARDO FUENTES-NIEVA is policy specialist at the Human Development Report Office of UNDP. Recently, he was on leave from his position to write a chapter for the World Development Report 2010 at the World Bank. Before joining UNDP, he was director of statistical analysis and advisor to the Under Secretary of Social Development in Mexico; prior to that, he worked for the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. He graduated with honors from CIDE in Mexico City and earned a master's degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain.
PAPA A. SECK is a Statistics specialist for the UNDP's Human Development Report Office. Since joining UNDP in 2006 he has worked on topics related to child mortality, children's health and education, vulnerability to climate change and most recently migration. Prior to joining UNDP, he taught undergraduate economics at Hunter College. He holds a master's degree, summa cum laude in Economics Special Honours Curriculum, from Hunter College of the City University of New York. He was awarded the Arthur Leon Hornicker Memorial Award for best CUNY thesis in 2005.
Description
Global financial crisis, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and droughts are ever present in the history of humanity. But what does this mean for the way people live their lives – their health, their education, and their overall well-being? This book examines the effects of large shocks and their impact on human development.
The contributors to this volume provide conceptual and empirical analysis to illustrate the depth and breadth of these negative shocks and the long-lasting effects on human development for people and households. It considers the cumulative consequences on poverty reduction efforts, in the context of climate change and the global financial crisis. The book also engages with the lively debate about the policy mechanisms that are needed to protect people against such events.
This book is essential reading for all interested in human development and well-being, and development economics.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What do we Know, What do we Need to Know?
Shocks That cheat its survivors: disasters and long term development
Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
The Impact of Climatic and Geological Hazards on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico
The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador
The Short and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence
Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection
The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition
Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine
Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks and adaptive capacity
Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia
Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief
Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief
Public Responses to Climatic and Geological Hazards
Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private mechanisms and Public policies: a challenge for research
Authors
RICARDO FUENTES-NIEVA is policy specialist at the Human Development Report Office of UNDP. Recently, he was on leave from his position to write a chapter for the World Development Report 2010 at the World Bank. Before joining UNDP, he was director of statistical analysis and advisor to the Under Secretary of Social Development in Mexico; prior to that, he worked for the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. He graduated with honors from CIDE in Mexico City and earned a master's degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain.
PAPA A. SECK is a Statistics specialist for the UNDP's Human Development Report Office. Since joining UNDP in 2006 he has worked on topics related to child mortality, children's health and education, vulnerability to climate change and most recently migration. Prior to joining UNDP, he taught undergraduate economics at Hunter College. He holds a master's degree, summa cum laude in Economics Special Honours Curriculum, from Hunter College of the City University of New York. He was awarded the Arthur Leon Hornicker Memorial Award for best CUNY thesis in 2005.
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