Ex-post coping strategies of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam

authored by

Songporne Tongruksawattana, Vera Junge, Hermann Waibel, Javier Revilla Diez, Erich Schmidt

Abstract

Understanding shocks and their consequences is essential for the design of effective poverty alleviation strategies in poor countries and in emerging market economies. Information about existing coping strategies of poor households is especially needed in order to design effective public support schemes to mitigate negative shocks. Also, a better understanding of the effectiveness of self-insurance measures is important, as this may provide some hints on chances and constraints to establish private insurance markets and public risk management schemes. The literature on vulnerability to poverty suggests that shock-coping activities are not independent of shock type and household characteristics (for example Berloffa and Modena, 2009; Dercon, 2007; Hoddinott, 2006; Rashid et al., 2006). However, there is a need to further explore this interaction on strong empirical grounds, which is only possible with a comprehensive empirical dataset.

Organisation(s)

Faculty of Economics and Management
Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade

External Organisation(s)

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Kenya

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

216-257

No. of pages

42

Publication date

01.01.2016

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all), Business, Management and Accounting(all), Social Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 1 - No Poverty

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306622_9 (Access: Closed)