@techreport{Bruck2003Coping,
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.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Tilman Br\"{u}ck},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J22; O12; O13; Q12; 330; coping strategies; activity choices; labour allocation; portfolio model; war; conflict; reconstruction; policy; Mozambique; Africa; Landwirtschaftlicher Familienbetrieb; Kriegsschaden; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung; Mocambique},
language = {eng},
number = {384},
publisher = {Deutsches Institut f\"{u}r Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)},
title = {Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique},
type = {DIW-Diskussionspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18140},
year = {2003}
}
