Risk pooling between households and risk-coping measures in developing countries: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 422-457

  Park, Cheolsung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

BARIS;

EID: 33244488456     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497013     Document Type: Article

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