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Risk, Shocks, and Human Development

On the Brink

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Editors:
  1. Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva

    1. Human Development Report Office of UNDP, USA

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  2. Papa A. Seck

    1. UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A. Seck
      Pages 1-12

  3. Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know?

      • Stefan Dercon
      Pages 15-39

    3. Shocks that Cheat its Survivors: Disasters and Long-term Development

      • Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
      Pages 40-61

    4. Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment

      • John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing
      Pages 62-100

  4. Empirical Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Impact of Natural Shocks on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico

      • Alejandro de la Fuente, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
      Pages 103-127

    3. The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador

      • Indhira V. Santos
      Pages 128-151

    4. The Short- and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence

      • Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A. Seck
      Pages 152-184

    5. Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross-Section Data and Welfare Projection

      • Namsuk Kim
      Pages 185-206

    6. The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition

      • Damir Cosic, Partha Deb
      Pages 207-221

    7. Intergenerational Effects of the 1959–61 China Famine

      • Winnie Fung, Wei Ha
      Pages 222-254

  6. Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private Mechanisms and Public Policies: A Challenge for Research

    1. Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private Mechanisms and Public Policies: A Challenge for Research

      • Papa A. Seck
      Pages 374-378

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 379-385
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About this book

Sudden negative events are part of life, but some are more disastrous than others. This book analyzes the consequences of sudden negative shocks in the short and long term well being of people and how the policies implemented before, during and in the immediate aftermath of the event could help prevent these long lasting effects.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Human Development Report Office of UNDP, USA

    Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva

  • UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, USA

    Papa A. Seck

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk, Shocks, and Human Development

  • Book Subtitle: On the Brink

  • Editors: Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A. Seck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274129

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22390-5Published: 22 December 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27412-9Published: 09 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 385

  • Topics: Education Policy, International Economics

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