Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Tilman Br�ck ()
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Tilman Br�ck: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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No 2, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies are expected to differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit markets entirely. Post-war reconstruction policy should focus on re-capitalizing households and providing public goods.

Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2004-03
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Working Paper: Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique (2005)
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