Determinants of Poverty, Self-Reported Shocks, and Coping Strategies: Evidence from Rural Nepal
| Autor: | Nirjala Raut, Xiangqing Ma, Nirmal Kumar Raut, Muhammad Haroon U. Rashid, Narayan Prasad Gautam, Pengfei Wu, Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
forest-dependent households Geography Planning and Development Ethnic group TJ807-830 Ordered probit Dissaving 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law coping strategies TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources GE1-350 Socioeconomics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Poverty Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Regression analysis Livelihood climatic shocks Environmental sciences Shock (economics) Geography Agriculture determinants of poverty rural Nepal business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 1790, p 1790 (2021) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 4 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | This paper assesses the interrelationship between poverty, climatic and non-climatic shocks, and shock coping strategies adopted by farm-based rural households in Nepal. An analysis is based on a comprehensive data set collected from 300 randomly selected households from three purposively chosen villages of Gandaki province. The study utilizes binary and ordered probit regression models to analyze the determinants of poverty, shocks, and coping strategies. Findings reveal that the Dalit (ethnic group), large-sized, and agricultural households are more likely to be characterized as poor. The study further shows that majority of the households are exposed to the severe shock of climatic types. Patterns of shock exposure vary with the household’s characteristics. In particular, poor households in the hills primarily dependent on forest for livelihood are more likely to experience severe shocks. Further analyses indicate that the households ex-post choose dissaving, borrowing, shifting occupation, and migration to cope with severe climatic shocks. The analyses also reveal that the nature of shocks, socio-economic, demographic, geographic contexts, and factor endowments effect adopting a particular coping strategy. Findings suggest household level-specific support should be provided to mitigate the effects of shock, and appropriate measures are taken to protect their means of living. |
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