Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation
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- Macours, Karen & Premand, Patrick & Vakis, Renos, 2012. "Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies : experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6053, The World Bank.
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cash transfers; climate change adaptation; diversification; productive investment; risk-management; shocks; vocational training;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2012-04-23 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2012-04-23 (Environmental Economics)
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