03763nam 22005894a 450 991045655460332120200520144314.092-808-7140-4(CKB)2550000000019432(EBL)728590(OCoLC)697182391(SSID)ssj0000474286(PQKBManifestationID)11291298(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474286(PQKBWorkID)10453724(PQKB)11068929(MiAaPQ)EBC728590(Au-PeEL)EBL728590(CaPaEBR)ebr10397566(EXLCZ)99255000000001943220090501d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVulnerability in developing countries[electronic resource] /edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivrayTokyo ;New York United Nations University Pressc20091 online resource (347 p.)Description based upon print version of record.92-808-1171-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction /Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray --Measuring vulnerability and poverty : estimates for rural India /Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai --Vulnerability, trust and micro-credit : the case of China's rural poor /Calum G. Turvey and Rong Kong --Assets, poverty dynamics and vulnerability : evidence from rural Tajikistan /Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete --Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe /Kate Bird and Martin Prowse --Vulnerability dynamics and HIV risk in the semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh /B. Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Ma. Cynthia Serquiña Bantilan and Devanathan Parthasarathy --Vulnerability to hunger : responding to food crises in fragile states /Colin Andrews and Margarita Flores --Vulnerability of small-island economies : the impact of "natural" disasters in the Caribbean /Martin Philipp Heger, Alex Julca and Oliver Paddison --Natural disasters and remittances : poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS /Marlene Attzs --Growth-oriented macroeconomic policies for small-island economies : lessons from Singapore /Anis Chowdhury --Vulnerability in developing countries : implications and conclusions /Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray.Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty.The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, includingPovertyDeveloping countriesPublic healthDeveloping countriesNatural disastersDeveloping countriesElectronic books.PovertyPublic healthNatural disasters362.509172/4Naudé Wim A939549Santos Paulino Amelia Uliafnova939550McGillivray Mark939551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456554603321Vulnerability in developing countries2117985UNINA01652nam a2200289 i 4500991000468729707536091130s2007 it 000 0 ita d9788871071268b13861815-39ule_instBiblioteca Interfacoltàita025.84 OAIS :[Open archival information system] = Sistema informativo aperto per l'archiviazione /a cura di Giovanni Michetti[Roma] :ICCU,2007XXX, 190 p., [1] c. ripieg. ;24 cm.La conservazione del digitale ;4 In testa al front.: Direzione generale per i beni librari e per gli istituti culturali; Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche; Istituto di studi per la tutela dei beni archivistici e librari dell'Università degli studi di Urbino. - Tit. in cop. - Tit. parallelo in cop.Risorse elettronicheConservazioneMichetti, Giovanni Italia : Direzione generale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturaliUniversità degli studi<Urbino> :Istituto di studi per la tutela dei beni archivistici e librari Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche Open archival information system .b1386181502-04-1430-11-09991000468729707536LE002 Bibl. Ris. 467/212002000606006le002pE0.00-no 00000.i1503973030-11-09OAIS231042UNISALENTOle00230-11-09ma -itait 00