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 throu...