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Gauging the Welfare Effects of Shocks in Rural Tanzania

dc.contributor.author Christiaensen, Luc
dc.contributor.author Hoffmann, Vivian
dc.contributor.author Sarris, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned 2012-06-08T20:27:48Z
dc.date.available 2012-06-08T20:27:48Z
dc.date.issued 2007-11
dc.description.abstract Studies of risk and its consequences tend to focus on one risk factor, such as a drought or an economic crisis. Yet 2003 household surveys in rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in Tanzania that experienced a precipitous coffee price decline around the turn of the millennium, identified health and drought shocks as well as commodity price declines as major risk factors, suggesting the need for a comprehensive approach to analyzing household vulnerability. In fact, most coffee growers, except the smaller ones in Kilimanjaro, weathered the coffee price declines rather well, at least to the point of not being worse off than non-coffee growers. Conversely, improving health conditions and reducing the effect of droughts emerge as critical to reduce vulnerability. One-third of the rural households in Kilimanjaro experienced a drought or health shocks, resulting in an estimated 8 percent welfare loss on average, after using savings and aid. Rainfall is more reliable in Ruvuma, and drought there did not affect welfare. Surprisingly, neither did health shocks, plausibly because of lower medical expenditures given limited health care provisions. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/11/8735778/gauging-welfare-effects-shocks-rural-tanzania
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7592
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4406
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ABSENTEEISM
dc.subject ACCESS TO CAPITAL
dc.subject ACCESS TO CREDIT
dc.subject ACCESS TO IRRIGATION
dc.subject ACCESSIBILITY
dc.subject ADDITIONAL INCOME
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
dc.subject AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS
dc.subject ASSET HOLDINGS
dc.subject BANANA TREES
dc.subject BANANAS
dc.subject BANKING SERVICES
dc.subject CALCULATIONS
dc.subject CASH CROPS
dc.subject CASH RESERVES
dc.subject CASH-CROP
dc.subject CASHEW NUTS
dc.subject COFFEE
dc.subject COFFEE CROP
dc.subject COFFEE FARMERS
dc.subject COFFEE GROWERS
dc.subject COFFEE GROWING
dc.subject COFFEE PRICES
dc.subject COFFEE PRODUCTION
dc.subject COFFEE TREES
dc.subject COMMODITIES
dc.subject COMMODITY
dc.subject CONSUMER
dc.subject CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
dc.subject CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING
dc.subject COVARIATE SHOCKS
dc.subject CRIME
dc.subject CROP
dc.subject CROP FAILURE
dc.subject CROPS
dc.subject CROWDING OUT
dc.subject CULTIVATED LAND
dc.subject CULTIVATION
dc.subject DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
dc.subject DIVERSIFICATION
dc.subject DROUGHTS
dc.subject EARNINGS
dc.subject ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
dc.subject ECONOMIC CRISES
dc.subject ECONOMIC CRISIS
dc.subject ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS
dc.subject EFFECTS OF DROUGHT
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subject ETHNIC GROUPS
dc.subject EXCHANGE RATE
dc.subject EXPENDITURE
dc.subject EXPENDITURES
dc.subject EXTERNAL SHOCK
dc.subject FAMILIES
dc.subject FAMILY MEMBER
dc.subject FAO
dc.subject FARM
dc.subject FARM ENTERPRISE
dc.subject FARM SELF-EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject FARMING
dc.subject FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
dc.subject FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject FOOD AID
dc.subject FOOD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject FOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subject FORMAL CREDIT
dc.subject FORMAL EDUCATION
dc.subject FULL ACCESS
dc.subject GENDER
dc.subject HEALTH CARE
dc.subject HEALTH ECONOMICS
dc.subject HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subject HEALTH SPENDING
dc.subject HOLISTIC APPROACH
dc.subject HOSPITALIZATION
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD HEAD
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD HEADS
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITY
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject INCOME
dc.subject INCOME GENERATION
dc.subject INCOME SHOCK
dc.subject INSURANCE
dc.subject INSURANCE MARKETS
dc.subject INSURANCE SCHEMES
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL BANK
dc.subject IRRIGATION
dc.subject LANDHOLDING SIZE
dc.subject LANDHOLDINGS
dc.subject LIFE CYCLE
dc.subject LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP
dc.subject LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject LOW-INCOME
dc.subject LOWER INCOMES
dc.subject MARGINAL RATE
dc.subject MEDICAL EXPENSES
dc.subject MICRO-FINANCE
dc.subject MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
dc.subject MORTALITY
dc.subject POLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subject POOR
dc.subject POSSESSION
dc.subject POSSESSIONS
dc.subject POVERTY ALLEVIATION
dc.subject POVERTY INCIDENCE
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
dc.subject PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subject PROBABILITY
dc.subject PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject PROFITABILITY
dc.subject QUALITY OF LIFE
dc.subject QUESTIONNAIRE
dc.subject RATE OF RETURNS
dc.subject RECEIPT
dc.subject REMITTANCE
dc.subject REMITTANCES
dc.subject RISK AVERSION
dc.subject RISK FACTORS
dc.subject RISK SHARING
dc.subject RURAL
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject RURAL HOUSEHOLD
dc.subject RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject RURAL POPULATION
dc.subject SAFETY NET
dc.subject SAFETY NET PROGRAMS
dc.subject SALE
dc.subject SALES
dc.subject SAVINGS
dc.subject SECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subject SELF-EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject SENIOR
dc.subject SOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subject SOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subject SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
dc.subject TARGETING
dc.subject TOBACCO
dc.subject UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subject VALUE OF ASSETS
dc.subject VILLAGE
dc.subject VILLAGES
dc.subject WAGE
dc.subject WORKING AGE
dc.subject YIELDS
dc.title Gauging the Welfare Effects of Shocks in Rural Tanzania en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/11/8735778/gauging-welfare-effects-shocks-rural-tanzania
okr.globalpractice Agriculture
okr.globalpractice Poverty
okr.globalpractice Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-4406
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000158349_20071120084408
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 8735778
okr.identifier.report WPS4406
okr.language.supported en
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okr.region.administrative Africa
okr.region.country Tanzania
okr.topic Health Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Access to Finance
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topic Crops and Crop Management Systems
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic Agriculture
okr.unit Development Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume 1 of 1
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