A Review of the Ex Post and Ex Ante Impacts of Risk

This paper reviews evidence on how risk affects development outcomes at the household level, in particular among the poor, by providing a categorization of the effects of different types of risk on welfare, assets, human capital, and other outcomes at different points in the life cycle, but also the...

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Main Authors: Oviedo, Ana Maria, Moroz, Harry
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16333