LEADER 03763nam 22005894a 450 001 9910456554603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a92-808-7140-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019432 035 $a(EBL)728590 035 $a(OCoLC)697182391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291298 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453724 035 $a(PQKB)11068929 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC728590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL728590 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10397566 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019432 100 $a20090501d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVulnerability in developing countries$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Wim Naude?, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray 210 $aTokyo ;$aNew York $cUnited Nations University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a92-808-1171-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tVulnerability in developing countries : an introduction /$rWim Naude?, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray --$tMeasuring vulnerability and poverty : estimates for rural India /$rRaghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai --$tVulnerability, trust and micro-credit : the case of China's rural poor /$rCalum G. Turvey and Rong Kong --$tAssets, poverty dynamics and vulnerability : evidence from rural Tajikistan /$rOleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete --$tVulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe /$rKate Bird and Martin Prowse --$tVulnerability dynamics and HIV risk in the semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh /$rB. Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Ma. Cynthia Serquin?a Bantilan and Devanathan Parthasarathy --$tVulnerability to hunger : responding to food crises in fragile states /$rColin Andrews and Margarita Flores --$tVulnerability of small-island economies : the impact of "natural" disasters in the Caribbean /$rMartin Philipp Heger, Alex Julca and Oliver Paddison --$tNatural disasters and remittances : poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS /$rMarlene Attzs --$tGrowth-oriented macroeconomic policies for small-island economies : lessons from Singapore /$rAnis Chowdhury --$tVulnerability in developing countries : implications and conclusions /$rWim Naude?, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray. 330 $aVulnerability 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, including 606 $aPoverty$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPublic health$zDeveloping countries 606 $aNatural disasters$zDeveloping countries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoverty 615 0$aPublic health 615 0$aNatural disasters 676 $a362.509172/4 701 $aNaude?$b Wim A$0939549 701 $aSantos Paulino$b Amelia Uliafnova$0939550 701 $aMcGillivray$b Mark$0939551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456554603321 996 $aVulnerability in developing countries$92117985 997 $aUNINA