Risk, Shocks, and Human Development

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

5. Behavioral and Policy Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Evidence on the Link between Migration, Climate Shocks, and Adaptive Capacity

      • Liliana Carvajal, Isabel Pereira

      Pages 257-283

   3. Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia

      • Wei Ha

      Pages 284-309

   4. Natural Hazards and Unnatural Disasters: A Survey of the Gendered Terrain of Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Relief

      • Roshni R. Menon

      Pages 310-341

   5. Public Responses to Natural Disasters: What Has Been Done and What Else Could Be Done

      • Alejandro de la Fuente

      Pages 342-373

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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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.

• China
• development
• migration

• Human Development Report Office of UNDP, USA

  Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva

• UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, USA

  Papa A. Seck

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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