Vulnerability in developing countries /

Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Naudé, Wim A., Santos Paulino, Amelia Uliafnova, McGillivray, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Poverty > Developing countries.
Public health > Developing countries.
Natural disasters > Developing countries.
Poverty.
Developing Countries > economics
Poverty
Socioeconomic Factors
Vulnerable Populations
Pauvreté.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty.
Natural disasters.
Public health.
Armut
Gesundheitswesen
Naturkatastrophe
Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer
Congressen (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty. The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789280871401
9280871404

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