What do Household Surveys<i>Really</i>Tell Us about Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?

Heltberg, Rasmus; Oviedo, Ana María; Talukdar, Faiyaz

doi:10.1080/00220388.2014.959934

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“…Probably the poor cannot afford to hold unproductive liquid assets for consumption smoothing. Instead, they prefer to use low-cost strategies for managing risk, such as informal credit from family and friends and reciprocity-based networks (Heltberg et al, 2015;Bouquet et al, 2015).…”

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Why Do Poor People Co-Hold Debt and Liquid Savings?

Laureti

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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I examine the use of flexible savings-and-loan accounts offered by SafeSave, a microfinance institution serving poor slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I find that 59% of the clients co-hold, meaning that they borrow at high interest rates and simultaneously hold low-yield liquid savings. Co-holders could immediately pay down, on average, 32 per cent of their debt using liquid savings and thus avoid significant interest payments. The results show that co-holders are more likely to be regular workers subject to little income uncertainty, suggesting that co-holding is not a consequence of liquidity needs. The paper discusses alternative explanations. Keywords Forthcoming in Journal of Development StudiesKey words: Liquidity, uncertainty, precautionary savings, microfinance, Bangladesh.

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Section: Regression Resultsmentioning

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Why Do Poor People Co-Hold Debt and Liquid Savings?

Laureti

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59] Esta carga a menudo puede tener como resultado que los hogares recorten gastos esenciales, como la comida. 57 Los hogares pobres encabezados por mujeres son más vulnerables a la catástrofe económica como resultado de los eventos adversos de salud. 58 Los estimados convencionales de las tasas de pobreza en países en desarrollo a menudo no toman en cuenta estos gastos de bolsillo para costear la atención médica.…”

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Invirtiendo en salud: el argumento económico. Informe del Foro sobre Inversión en Salud de la Cumbre Mundial sobre Innovación para la Salud 2016

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Invirtiendo en salud: Informe WISHArtículo especiAl * El material contenido en este artículo es una versión reducida y traducida al español de la versión original publicada en inglés en la Cumbre Mundial sobre Innovación para la Salud (WISH), una iniciativa de la Fundación Qatar, en Doha, Qatar, en noviembre 29-20 de 2016. Los autores agradecen a la Fundación Qatar el financiamiento de la investigación reportada en este artículo. Asimismo, agradecen a la Asociación Mexicana de Industrias de Investigación Farmacéutica, AC, por el apoyo financiero para la traducción al español del informe original. Abstract Developing country governments and aid agencies face difficult decisions on how best to allocate their finite resources.

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“…This is a more methodological topic relating to the increasing tendency to survey households for wealth-related information and risks (see: Heltberg; Oviedo; Talukdar, 2015). The term household(s) occurred in 1% of articles in 1975 and increased linearly to 15% in 2014, co-occurring most with the term survey (30% of articles containing household(s) also contained survey).…”

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Development studies research 1975-2014 in academic journal articles: The end of economics?

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2016

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The field of development studies analyses causes and potential solutions for global poverty and inequality. Since the Second World War there have been major changes in theories about the root causes of global poverty and the strategies necessary to tackle it. This article views the history of development studies from the perspective of the role of economics during . A topic modelling analysis of published journal articles from Scopus suggests that there has been a relative decline in research that focuses on economics, and particularly for research concerned with firms and growth. In parallel, the analysis suggests that there has been a relatively slow increase in interest in the environment, a lack of scholarly interest in BRICS and dependency theory, and a relatively homogeneous treatment of gender issues. KeywordsDevelopment studies; Trends analysis; Topic models; Scientometrics; Bibliometrics; Economics. ResumenEn los estudios sobre desarrollo se analizan las causas y las posibles soluciones para la pobreza y la desigualdad globales. Desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial se han producido cambios importantes en las teorías sobre las causas de la pobreza mundial y las estrategias necesarias para hacerle frente. En este artículo se revisan los estudios de desarrollo publicados en el período 1975-2014 desde la perspectiva del papel jugado por la economía. Un análisis de los temas de los artículos publicados en revistas indexadas en Scopus sugiere que ha habido una disminución relativa de la investigación centrada en la economía, y en particular en la investigación sobre empresas y crecimiento. Paralelamente, el análisis sugiere que se ha producido un lento aumento en el interés por el medio ambiente, falta de interés del mundo académico por los países BRICS y la teoría de la dependencia, y un tratamiento bastante homogéneo de las cuestiones de género.

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What do Household SurveysReallyTell Us about Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World?

Cited by 37 publications

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Why Do Poor People Co-Hold Debt and Liquid Savings?

Why Do Poor People Co-Hold Debt and Liquid Savings?

Invirtiendo en salud: el argumento económico. Informe del Foro sobre Inversión en Salud de la Cumbre Mundial sobre Innovación para la Salud 2016

Development studies research 1975-2014 in academic journal articles: The end of economics?

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