Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review

Risk and its consequences pose a formidable threat to poverty reduction efforts. This article reviews a plethora of community-based risk management arrangements across the developing world. These types of arrangements are garnering greater interest in light of the growing recognition of the relative...

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Main Authors: Bhattamishra, Ruchira, Barrett, Christopher B.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5420
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spelling okr-10986-54202021-04-23T14:02:22Z Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review Bhattamishra, Ruchira Barrett, Christopher B. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Risk and its consequences pose a formidable threat to poverty reduction efforts. This article reviews a plethora of community-based risk management arrangements across the developing world. These types of arrangements are garnering greater interest in light of the growing recognition of the relative prominence of household- or individual-specific idiosyncratic risk as well as the increasing shift towards community-based development funding. The article discusses potential advantages (such as targeting, cost and informational) and disadvantages (such as exclusion and inability to manage correlated risk) of these arrangements, and their implications for the design of community-based social protection programs and policies. 2012-03-30T07:32:44Z 2012-03-30T07:32:44Z 2010 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5420 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs
Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
spellingShingle Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs
Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Bhattamishra, Ruchira
Barrett, Christopher B.
Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
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description Risk and its consequences pose a formidable threat to poverty reduction efforts. This article reviews a plethora of community-based risk management arrangements across the developing world. These types of arrangements are garnering greater interest in light of the growing recognition of the relative prominence of household- or individual-specific idiosyncratic risk as well as the increasing shift towards community-based development funding. The article discusses potential advantages (such as targeting, cost and informational) and disadvantages (such as exclusion and inability to manage correlated risk) of these arrangements, and their implications for the design of community-based social protection programs and policies.
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author Bhattamishra, Ruchira
Barrett, Christopher B.
author_facet Bhattamishra, Ruchira
Barrett, Christopher B.
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title Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
title_short Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
title_full Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
title_fullStr Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
title_full_unstemmed Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements : A Review
title_sort community-based risk management arrangements : a review
publishDate 2012
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