Household Wellbeing and Food Prices
Vulnerable households cope with difficult times in ways that have adverse consequences on human development, according to a study presented at the “Household Wellbeing and Food Prices” session of the sixth African Economic Conference, which ended in Addis Ababa on Friday.
The poor are more vulnerable to natural disasters, which are increasingly associated with climate change, and economic shocks. Such households cope with these shocks by drawing on individual, community, market and public resources. Read more
- Chair: Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Division, UNECA
- Paper 1 - Monitoring Household Coping During Shocks: Evidence from Kenya and the Phillipines - Shantanu Mukherjee and Shinavi Nayyar, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP / Economic Consultant
Discussant: Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Senior Research Economist, African Development Bank
- Paper 2 - Subjective Wellbeing, reference groups and relative standing in post-apartheid South Africa - Marisa Coetzee, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Discussant: Ginette P. M. Camara, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Chad
- Paper 3 - The Food price Spikes of 2008/09 and 2010/11: Country-level impacts and policy responses - Pedro Conceicao, Sebastian levine and Zuzana Brixiova, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, New York / UNDP Country Office, Swaziland
Discussant: Barbara Barungi, Lead Economist, African Development Bank
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