Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Tilman Brück

No 384, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

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 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 consider exiting markets entirely. Post-war reconstruction policy should focus on re-capitalizing households, providing public goods and establishing markets.

Keywords: coping strategies; activity choices; labour allocation; portfolio model; war; conflict; reconstruction; policy; Mozambique; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 O12 O13 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 p.
Date: 2003
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