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How The Extreme Poor Cope With Crises: Understanding The Role Of Assets And Consumption

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  • Ibrahim Kasirye

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Abstract This paper uses quantitative and qualitative panel household data, for the period 1992–2009, to model the coping mechanisms of households when faced with crises in Uganda. We find that socio‐economic determinants strongly influence coping mechanisms, with larger sized households being more likely to engage in the reduction of assets, and with households more likely to reduce food consumption when there is a drought and sell assets when faced with floods. Furthermore, being persistently poor and sick appear to result in disproportionately large reductions in assets over time—depleting a households asset base, and future coping mechanisms, of poorer households. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • David Lawson & Ibrahim Kasirye, 2013. "How The Extreme Poor Cope With Crises: Understanding The Role Of Assets And Consumption," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(8), pages 1129-1143, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:25:y:2013:i:8:p:1129-1143
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    1. Eva-Maria Egger & Vincenzo Salvucci & Finn Tarp, 2023. "Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty in Crisis-Ridden Mozambique," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 166(3), pages 485-519, April.
    2. Murken, Lisa & Kraehnert, Kati & Gornott, Christoph, 2024. "Is this land for sale? The effects of drought on land ownership in Uganda," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    3. Nilifer Anaç & Eva-Maria Egger & Sam Jones & Ricardo Santos & Alex Warren-Rodriguez, 2022. "The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-173, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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