The Resource Vulnerability in developing countries, edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
Vulnerability in developing countries, edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
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- Summary
- 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, including
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 321 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction
- 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
- 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
- Isbn
- 9789280871401
- Label
- Vulnerability in developing countries
- Title
- Vulnerability in developing countries
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
- Subject
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- Vulnerable Populations
- Armut
- Congressen (vorm)
- Developing Countries -- economics
- Developing countries
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Entwicklungsländer
- Gesundheitswesen
- Natural disasters
- Natural disasters -- Developing countries
- Naturkatastrophe
- Poverty
- Poverty
- Poverty -- Developing countries
- Public health
- Public health -- Developing countries
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, including
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 362.509172/4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC59.7
- LC item number
- .V83 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2010 I-219
- HC 59.7
- NLM item number
- V991 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Naudé, Wim A
- Santos Paulino, Amelia Uliafnova
- McGillivray, Mark
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Poverty
- Public health
- Natural disasters
- Developing Countries
- Poverty
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Vulnerable Populations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Natural disasters
- Poverty
- Public health
- Developing countries
- Armut
- Gesundheitswesen
- Naturkatastrophe
- Entwicklungsländer
- Label
- Vulnerability in developing countries, edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- 697182391
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 321 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789280871401
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)697182391
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Vulnerability in developing countries, edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- 697182391
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 321 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789280871401
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)697182391
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Vulnerable Populations
- Armut
- Congressen (vorm)
- Developing Countries -- economics
- Developing countries
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Entwicklungsländer
- Gesundheitswesen
- Natural disasters
- Natural disasters -- Developing countries
- Naturkatastrophe
- Poverty
- Poverty
- Poverty -- Developing countries
- Public health
- Public health -- Developing countries
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty
- Socioeconomic Factors
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