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Household Responses To Poverty And Vulnerability: Confronting Crisis In Commonwealth, Metro Manila, The Philippines (urban Management Programme Policy Papers No 23) by Caroline O. N. Moser; Cathy McIlwaine; Jeremy Holland is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Household Responses To Poverty And Vulnerability: Confronting Crisis In Commonwealth, Metro Manila, The Philippines (urban Management Programme Policy Papers No 23) about?
This study explored how poor households respond to changes in economic circumstances and labor market conditions, i.e. how the impact has been felt on the ground." It looked at how poor households adjust to a deteriorating situation, what strategies they adopt to limit the impact of shocks and generate additional resources, and what constraints impede their actions. This case study presents the main findings from the community of Commonwealth in Metro Manila (Philippines); other volumes focus on Chawama, in Lusaka, Zambia; Cisne Dos, in Guayaquil, Ecuador; and Angyalfold, in Budapest, Hungary. The results show that the four communities cope in remarkably similar (and dissimilar) ways. Three features distinguish this study from other poverty a micro-level approach combining households and communities as the main units of analysis, an unusually long period of observation for some communities and households, and a comparative framework offering four cases with very different economic levels and institutional contexts. The study used income measures, recognizing its multifaceted nature, as well as socio-psychological factors, incorporated in the concept of "vulnerability," the insecuri
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- Author
- Caroline O. N. Moser; Cathy McIlwaine; Jeremy Holland
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780821338476
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Economics, Social Science
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