When It Rains, It Pours? Analyzing the Rainfall Shocks-Poverty Nexus in the Philippines

Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy and Lora Kryz Baje ()
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Lora Kryz Baje: Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 145, issue 1, No 4, 67-93

Abstract: Abstract Weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on welfare. Given evidence that points to climate change resulting in altered patterns of weather parameters and given that the Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to climatic shifts, this paper aims to contribute to poverty studies in the country by analyzing the poverty-rainfall shock nexus. The paper finds that rainfall shocks affect wages and income, which in turn, affect chronic total and chronic food poverty. Some policy directions are provided.

Keywords: Rainfall shock; Components approach; Chronic poverty; Transient poverty; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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