Natural Disasters, Household Welfare, and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Vietnam

World Development

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-77

  Arouri, Mohamed ^a   Nguyen, Cuong ^b   Youssef, Adel Ben ^c  

^a Faculté de médecine   (France)

^b NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Disasters; Household welfare; Natural hazards; Poverty; Resilience; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURAL HAZARD; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; WELFARE IMPACT;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84921730965     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.017     Document Type: Article

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