Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor
What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank.

As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, presenting the compelling perspectives of affected communities in developing and transition countries on shocks and coping, vulnerability and resilience.

The book brings together qualitative crisis monitoring conducted during 2008-2011 in communities in sixteen countries, including eight country case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks, what coping strategies they applied, and which sources of support proved helpful. The studies in this book reveal striking similarities in people's coping responses across otherwise different countries. They also reveal widespread concern over high and volatile food prices, suggesting that the still ongoing global food crisis needs far more attention from policymakers.

As the most comprehensive qualitative research on crisis impacts and coping carried out in developing countries, the book also highlights the capacity for participatory research to pick up impacts and responses that other approaches may miss and contributing to the knowledge of how to qualitatively assess shocks, vulnerability, and resilience. This book will serve as an indispensable source of reference for future crisis monitoring efforts.

Written in accessible language, this book will help specialists and non-specialists alike understand how large economic crises impact people and communities and what is the role of public policy in protecting against risk.
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Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor
What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank.

As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, presenting the compelling perspectives of affected communities in developing and transition countries on shocks and coping, vulnerability and resilience.

The book brings together qualitative crisis monitoring conducted during 2008-2011 in communities in sixteen countries, including eight country case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks, what coping strategies they applied, and which sources of support proved helpful. The studies in this book reveal striking similarities in people's coping responses across otherwise different countries. They also reveal widespread concern over high and volatile food prices, suggesting that the still ongoing global food crisis needs far more attention from policymakers.

As the most comprehensive qualitative research on crisis impacts and coping carried out in developing countries, the book also highlights the capacity for participatory research to pick up impacts and responses that other approaches may miss and contributing to the knowledge of how to qualitatively assess shocks, vulnerability, and resilience. This book will serve as an indispensable source of reference for future crisis monitoring efforts.

Written in accessible language, this book will help specialists and non-specialists alike understand how large economic crises impact people and communities and what is the role of public policy in protecting against risk.
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What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank.

As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, presenting the compelling perspectives of affected communities in developing and transition countries on shocks and coping, vulnerability and resilience.

The book brings together qualitative crisis monitoring conducted during 2008-2011 in communities in sixteen countries, including eight country case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks, what coping strategies they applied, and which sources of support proved helpful. The studies in this book reveal striking similarities in people's coping responses across otherwise different countries. They also reveal widespread concern over high and volatile food prices, suggesting that the still ongoing global food crisis needs far more attention from policymakers.

As the most comprehensive qualitative research on crisis impacts and coping carried out in developing countries, the book also highlights the capacity for participatory research to pick up impacts and responses that other approaches may miss and contributing to the knowledge of how to qualitatively assess shocks, vulnerability, and resilience. This book will serve as an indispensable source of reference for future crisis monitoring efforts.

Written in accessible language, this book will help specialists and non-specialists alike understand how large economic crises impact people and communities and what is the role of public policy in protecting against risk.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780821394601
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Publication date: 04/02/2012
Series: New Frontiers of Social Policy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 306
File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

About the Editors xv

About the Authors xvii

Study Team and Acknowledgments xxiii

Abbreviations xxv

Living through Crises: An Overview Rasmus Heltberg Naomi Hossain Anna Reva Andy Sumner 1

Chapter 1 Anatomy of Coping: Evidence from People Living through the Crises of 2008-11 Rasmus Heltberg Naomi Hossain Anna Reva Carolyn Turk 23

Chapter 2 Bangladesh: Pathways and Impacts of the Global Economic Shocks Mamunur Rashid Bayazid Hasan Naomi Hossain 61

Chapter 3 Crisis Monitoring among Low-Income Workers in Cambodia: Monitoring Vulnerabilities and Discovering Resilience Veronica Mendizabal Theng Vuthy Tong Kimsun Pon Dorina 91

Chapter 4 Impact of the Economic Crisis in the Central African Republic: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments Lea Salmon Josias Tebero Quentin Wodon 117

Chapter 5 Risk and Resilience: Summary of Rapid Qualitative Assessments of Social Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Kazakhstan Sandra Schlossar Carolyn Turk 143

Chapter 6 Crises in Kenya: Living with Hunger in an Era of Economic and Political Shocks Grace Lubaale Naomi Hossain 163

Chapter 7 Coping with the Global Economic Crisis in Mongolia: Findings from Focus Group Discussions Anna Reva Rasmus Heltberg Altantsetseg Sodnomtseren Sarantuya Jigjiddorj 185

Chapter 8 Perceptions of the Economic Crisis and Poverty in Senegal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Abdou Salam Fall Lea Salmon Quentin Wodon 207

Chapter 9 Economic and Political Crises in Thailand: Social Impacts and Government Responses Veronica Mendizabal Supang Chantavanich Samarn Laodumrongchai Mya Than Artit Wong-a-thitikul Warathida Chaiyapa Cheewin Ariyasuntorn Pamornrat Tansanguanwong 233

Appendix 1 Country Studies 257

Index 261

Box

9.1 Thailand's Political Crisis 234

Figures

1 Transmission Channels 5

1.1 Coping Mechanisms Determine the Ultimate Impact of Shocks 25

2.1 The Impacts of the World Financial Crisis on Economic Growth Rates in Selected Asian Countries, 2006-12 62

2.2 Prices of Staple Foods, 2008-11 70

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