Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dercon, Stefan
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
WAR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/17591806/income-risk-coping-strategies-safety-nets
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16419