TY  - JA
AU  - Heltberg,R.
AU  - Oviedo,A.M.
AU  - Talukdar,F.
TI  - What do household surveys really tell us about risk, shocks, and risk management in the developing world?
SN  - 0022-0388
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London (United Kingdom)
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Risk
KW  - Risk management
KW  - Household surveys
KW  - Developing countries
N1  - Peer review
N2  - We report on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters, health shocks, economic shocks, and asset loss are the most commonly reported types of shocks and, especially for the poor, often result in ‘bad’ coping responses that may perpetuate vulnerability. The information culled from these survey modules falls short of expectations in several ways
T2  - Journal of Development Studies
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.959934
ER  -