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Routledge Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries - Routledge

Name: Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries - Routledge
Brand: Routledge
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Addressing the major global challenges of our time requires a deep understanding of why poverty persists. This book from Routledge explores how progress in areas like climate change, conflict, urbanization, and demographic shifts is impossible without tackling poverty and vulnerability simultaneously. Modern development economics is shifting toward a new premise: successful poverty alleviation must account for various types of vulnerability. This text examines how populations face risks beyond just income loss, including threats from climate change, macroeconomic shocks, natural disasters, and conflict. By providing insights into these new analytical approaches, the book offers a necessary framework for understanding the complex risks faced by developing nations. It is an essential resource for those looking to understand how different hazards impact economic stability and human welfare in a changing world.

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Explores the connection between poverty alleviation and the management of various forms of vulnerability.

Examines how climate change, conflict, and natural disasters impact economic stability in developing nations.

Provides new analytical approaches to understanding macroeconomic shocks and demographic changes.

Offers insights into modern development economics and the shift toward multi-hazard vulnerability assessments.

Addresses the relationship between urbanization and the growing challenges of global poverty.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 041568594X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 September 2011
Listed Since: 08 April 2011

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