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Risk Management and Coping Strategies: Climate Change and Agriculture in the Philippines

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  • Majah-Leah V. Ravago

    (School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman)

  • James Roumasset

    (University of Hawaii)

  • Karl Jandoc

    (University of Hawaii)

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the use of an OECD Multi-Dimensional Country Review (MDCR) framework in understanding the long-term development history of the Philippines. The MDCR recognizes the multiplicity of development objectives countries usually pursue and therefore the associated multiplicity of challenges and opportunities. Following a conventional dichotomy of explaining the country’s development dynamics into economic and non-economic factors, the paper reviews the historical economic record and examines more recent non-economic hypotheses. While the latter is mostly political explanations it tries to link them to economic outcomes yet it is weak in tracing the mechanisms of the linkage despite using more rigorous methodologies. The paper then proceeds with hypothesizing that the long-term (political) behavior of breaking the country into finer geographical (and political) entities has been inimical to its sustainable long-term (economic) growth. The splitting of provinces, creation of new ones, of legislating more congressional districts, and further break-up of even the lowest government levels clearly fragment markets, raise real financial and transactions costs, bloat government budgets and the bureaucracy, and add burden to the private sector environment. Partial evidence is explored showing this behavior along the country’s long-term development history and some policy directions are suggested.

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  • Majah-Leah V. Ravago & James Roumasset & Karl Jandoc, 2015. "Risk Management and Coping Strategies: Climate Change and Agriculture in the Philippines," UP School of Economics Discussion Papers 201515, University of the Philippines School of Economics.
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    1. Rajeev, Meenakshi & Nagendran, Pranav, 2023. "Protecting land and livelihood under climate risks: What hinders crop insurance adoption?," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    2. Roumasset, James & Ravago, Majah-Leah & Jandoc, Karl & Arellano, Clarissa, 2016. "Environmental Resources, Shocks, and National Well-Being," MPRA Paper 87715, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Farm-household risk management; natural disaster; shock; coping;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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