Vulnerability in Developing Countries - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280811711 ISBN 13: 9789280811711

Verlag: United Nations University, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including the relationship between poverty and vulnerability arising from ill to health and external shocks. Case studies focus on major developing countries like China and India, countries in transition, small island states and failing states.

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Wim Naudé is a senior research fellow at UNU-WIDER. He was previously at North-West University, South Africa, and the CSAE, University of Oxford.

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino is a research fellow at UNU-WIDER. Previously she was a research fellow at the University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies.

Mark McGillivray is chief economist of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). He was previously deputy director of UNU-WIDER.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: United Nations University
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9280811711
• ISBN 13: 9789280811711
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
• Herausgeber: Naudé Wim, Santos-Paulino Ameilia U., McGillivray Mark
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