Gauging the welfare effects of shocks in rural Tanzania (English)

Studies of risk and its consequences tend to focus on one risk factor, such as a drought or an economic crisis. Yet 2003 household surveys in rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in Tanzania that experienced a precipitous coffee price decline around the turn of the millennium, identified health and drought shocks as well as commodity price declines as major risk factors, suggesting the need for a comprehensive approach to analyzing...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

Hoffmann,Vivian;

Sarris,Alexander H;
Document Date
2007/11/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS4406
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tanzania,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Gauging the welfare effects of shocks in rural Tanzania
Keywords
drought

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Christiaensen,Luc; Hoffmann,Vivian; Sarris,Alexander H.

Gauging the welfare effects of shocks in rural Tanzania (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4406 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/490531468311406074

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