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Risk, Shocks, and Human Development - On the Brink

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What do we Know, What do we Need to Know? Shocks That cheat its survivors: disasters and long term development Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment The Impact of Climatic and Geological Hazards on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador The Short and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks and adaptive capacity Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Public Responses to Climatic and Geological Hazards Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private mechanisms and Public policies: a challenge for research...

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Acknowledgements Introduction Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What do we Know, What do we Need to Know? Shocks That cheat its survivors: disasters and long term development Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment The Impact of Climatic and Geological Hazards on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador The Short and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks and adaptive capacity Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Public Responses to Climatic and Geological Hazards Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private mechanisms and Public policies: a challenge for research

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Authors Ricardo Seck Fuentes-Nieva
Assisted by Fuentes-Nieva (Editor), R Fuentes-Nieva (Editor), R. Fuentes-Nieva (Editor), Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva (Editor), Seck (Editor), Seck (Editor), P. Seck (Editor), Papa A. Seck (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.12.2009
 
EAN 9780230223905
ISBN 978-0-230-22390-5
No. of pages 402
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics

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