Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications

By Emmanuel Skoufias. 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Rethinking financial contagion: Information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, unknown): “results reported by Szczygielski et al. (2022) may also mean that the closer a region is positioned to the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in China (according to the geographical sequence of locations from east to west) the more investors may have known about the virus or possibly had better info”
The Role of non-timber forest products as safety-nets: A review of evidence with a focus on South Africa (2005, background): “example, households that sell their productive assets during adverse times may never sufficiently recover to replenish those assets and therefore get caught in a downward spiral of poverty (Skoufias, 2003; Wong and Godoy, 2003).”
The role of non-timber forest products in household coping strategies in South Africa: the influence of household wealth and gender (2011, methodology): “The coping strategies identified in this study have been noted by other commentators (De Waal and Whiteside 2003; Heemskerk et al. 2004; McSweeney 2004; Skoufias 2003; Smith et al. 2001; Wong and Godoy 2003), suggesting they are common forms of informal insurance.”
Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? (2004, background): “This approach examines causes, impacts on household well-being and mechanisms to cope with and buffer damage (Blaikie, Cannon, Davis, & Wisner, 1994; Skoufias, 2003).”
Another day, another dollar: Enterprise resilience under terrorism in developing countries (2010, methodology): “A handful of prior studies observed greater entrepreneurial activity after economic shocks (Skoufias, 2003), disasters (Tang, 2006), conflict (SEEP, 2007), and war (El Jack, 2007), yet theoretical and empirical research on the incidence and persistence of enterprise under terrorism remains limited.”
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development: An Introduction (2017, background): “Put differently, better post-disaster policies could significantly contribute to permanent improvements in people’s welfare (Skoufias, 2003).”
Enterprise Recovery Following Natural Disasters (2010, unknown): “There is a large literature on how households in developing countries cope with and respond to disasters and aggregate shocks; see Skoufias (2003) for an overview.”
COVID-19 and finance: Agendas for future research (2020, unknown): “Much of the group lending of microfinance institutions and banks’ lending to the poor will be pressured during epidemics because all members of the group will be pressured by the aggregate shock (Skoufias, 2003).”
Allocation of post-disaster reconstruction financing to housing (2004, methodology): “These constraints make targeting post-disaster assistance to the poor very difficult (Skoufias, 2003).”
The (hidden) costs of political instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 election crisis☆ (2012, unknown): “In this study, collecting diaries was not an option since the data was collected retrospectively.”