Growth and Risk

How exposure to risk affects economic growth is a key issue in development. This article quantifies both the ex ante and ex post effects of risk using long-running panel data for rural households in Zimbabwe. It proposes a simulation-based econometric methodology to estimate the structural form of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elbers, Chris, Gunning, Jan Willem, Kinsey, Bill
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4444