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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/61
Verlag: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper explores the linkages between poverty and disaster vulnerability in the context of remittance flows to households in the Caribbean. Jamaica is used as the case study country. The paper discusses the channels through which natural disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a percentage of households living below the poverty line and seeks to identify whether flows of remittances alleviate the post-disaster living conditions of such households. The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for
Schlagwörter: 
natural disasters
remittances
economics of gender
Jamaica
JEL: 
Q54
F24
J16
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-111-8
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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