Estimating development resilience: A conditional moments-based approach

Cissé, Jennifer Denno; Barrett, Christopher B.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.04.002

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“…The second econometric approach is a moment-based estimation of development resilience by Cissé and Barrett (2016) based on a theory proposed by Barrett and Constas (2014). The moment-based method has also been applied by Upton et al (2016) to derive a new quantitative measure of food security.…”

Section: Operationalizing and Measuring Resilience From A Household Fmentioning

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Resilience and household food security: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence

2019

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The way economic studies conceptualize and measure resilience is very heterogeneous. This does not only challenge scientific progress, but also raises the question of whether they measure one identical concept with different methods or whether they measure different understandings of resilience. This paper provides a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence on resilience from a food security perspective, focusing on socioeconomic research. We perform a systematic literature search to identify recent publications that analyze resilience from the perspective of household food security. We examine the historical evolution of concepts and methods used for measuring resilience and synthesize the evidence. We find that conceptual and analytical models have evolved over time, with important technical adjustments. Studies initially focused on measuring resilience as an end in itself, but more recently resilience is understood as a means to an ultimate end, hence resilience capacity is measured instead. Also, resilience was initially measured as an indicator of food security. Currently it is measured distinctly from food security. Multivariate techniques are found to be frequently used to quantify resilience. The empirical evidence suggests that households with higher resilience capacity tend to have less child malnutrition and better food security. We find that causal pathways through which resilience capacity affects food security in a microeconomic framework are barely explicitly considered in empirical analyses. Therefore, we suggest a model which explicitly addresses these pathways.

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Section: Operationalizing and Measuring Resilience From A Household Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and household food security: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence

2019

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“…These studies have focused on the following: identifying which economic units are or are not resilient; the differential impacts of shocks on these units; and the responses of different economic units to these shocks (Hoddinott 2006, Carter et al 2007, Akter and Mallick 2013, Alfani et al 2015, Jain et al 2015, Cissé and Barrett 2016. Analysis of this nature enables interventions to be targeted to increase the resistance of farmers to hazards, e.g., flood resistant seeds (Dar et al 2013) or enable ex post coping (e.g., Akter et al 2016).…”

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Resilience to hazards: rice farmers in the Mahanadi Delta, India

Duncan¹,

Tompkins²,

Dash³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Developing country deltas are important food producing areas and are home to large numbers of subsistence farmers. In particular, rice farmers dominate the populous deltas of South and Southeast Asia and face frequent climate hazards that have short-and long-term impacts on rice production and livelihoods. The aim of this study is to identify and explain proximal and ultimate factors (land access, cultural practices, and institutional support) that affect rice farmer resilience, that is, to explain why some farmers are more sensitive to climate shocks, why some farmers suffer long-term impacts from climate shocks, and what underlying "ultimate" factors reproduce this vulnerability over time. We undertake this analysis using qualitative interviews and household survey data from two districts in the Mahanadi Delta, Odisha, India. We show that climate hazards cause rice production shocks that are problematic for farmers because rice is predominantly used for household consumption in a context of unreliable off-farm income sources and a lack of insurance and credit. Our research emphasizes that "ultimate" drivers interact with the current mode of rice cultivation to reproduce a low resilience farming state. We argue that agricultural development interventions seeking to make rice farming more resilient to climate hazards should focus on boosting productivity and shock-resistance, but also be cognizant of the system within which rice farming is practiced and the contextual "ultimate" factors that reproduce vulnerability.

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“…food security). In this regard, the measurement’ needs faced by the resilience agenda have been compared by Cissé and Barret () to the poverty aggregation’ needs faced by Sen (): poverty ‘identification’ (i.e. identification of who is poor) and ‘aggregation’ (i.e.…”

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Resilience Measurement and Conceptual Frameworks: A Review of the Literature

Serfilippi

Ramnath²

2018

Ann Public Coop Econ

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The lack of consensus and consistency in measuring resilience undermines the ability of the development aid community to objectively monitor and verify the effects of programs that are intentionally designed to build resilience. In this paper we compare conceptual and analytical models of resilience used by various development organizations, critically evaluating their strengths and weaknesses from a program implementation and measurement point of view. We provide the reader with a clear synthesis of the literature and a classification system for these resilience models. Lastly, we bridge the 'measurement gap' by mapping each resilience model to their set of indicators and by building a list of indicators and metrics directly distilled from the literature and classified using SMART filters.

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Estimating development resilience: A conditional moments-based approach

Cited by 106 publications

References 28 publications

Resilience and household food security: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence

Resilience and household food security: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence

Resilience to hazards: rice farmers in the Mahanadi Delta, India

Resilience Measurement and Conceptual Frameworks: A Review of the Literature

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