TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christiaensen,Luc
AU  - Christiaensen,Luc
AU  - Hoffmann,Vivian
AU  - Sarris,Alexander
TI  - Gauging the Welfare Effects of Shocks in Rural Tanzania
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Crime
KW  - Crops and Crop Management Systems
KW  - Economic Theory and Research
KW  - Families
KW  - Health Care
KW  - Health Monitoring and Evaluation
KW  - Health Services
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - Holistic Approach
KW  - Hospitalization
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Quality of Life
KW  - Risk Factors
KW  - Rural Development
KW  - Rural Poverty Reduction
KW  - Unemployment
N2  - 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
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4406
ER  -