Natural disasters and food crises in low-income countries: macroeconomic dimensions
The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country's vulnerability to food crisis in the event of natural disasters. The paper finds that macroeconomic and structural in...
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Veröffentlicht in: | IMF working paper 2016-03, Vol.16 (65), p.1 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country's vulnerability to food crisis in the event of natural disasters. The paper finds that macroeconomic and structural indicators that are crucial for ensuring the resilience of low-income countries to adverse external shocks are equally important for minimizing the occurrence of food crisis in the event of natural disasters |
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ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
DOI: | 10.5089/9781513596013.001 |