The 1998 Floods in Bangladesh: Disaster Impacts, Household Coping Strategies, and Response

By C. Ninno, P. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith, D. Roy. 2001

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This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded. The report describes short- and medium-term government policy measures taken to encourage private trade, including an earlier trade liberalization that permitted private-sector imports of rice from India that stabilized private markets and largely offset the decline in production. The impact of the floods on household assets, employment, consumption, and nutritional outcomes is analyzed using the micro-level survey data. The study finds that flood-exposed households were, in general, able to avoid severe declines in food consumption and nutritional status through a combination of private-sector borrowing... and targeted government and NGO transfers.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, unknown): “Additionally, studies in South Asia show that within households, women receive significantly less food and sometimes less high-quality food such as meat and eggs (Ahmed 2000a, Haddad et al. 1996, del Ninno et al. 2001).”
From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature (2020, background): “In Bangladesh following the 1998 Great Flood, the targeting was relatively good: 66% of households in the bottom quintile received transfers, compared with 33% in the top quintile (del Ninno et al. 2001).”
Determinants of Dietary Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh (2011, background): “Micronutrient deficiencies, including those of iron, iodine and vitamin A, are widespread (Del Ninno et al 2001).”
Food aid, domestic policy and food security: Contrasting experiences from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (2007, background): “In addition, the government was very effective in quickly scaling up existing programs to flood-affected households through cash transfers via the gratuitous relief (GR) and in kind transfers to poor women via the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) (del Ninno et al., 2001).”