Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines

• Tác giả: Abla Safir
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 551.5 Meteorology
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 292892
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY; 2. ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE; 3. ACCESS TO MARKETS; 4. AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES; 5. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Tóm tắt

Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks decrease consumption, in particular food consumption. Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4 percent, when compared with rainfall within one standard deviation. Positive deviations above one standard deviation have a limited impact. Moreover, for households close to a highway or to a fixed-line phone, consumption appears to be fully protected from the impact of negative rainfall shocks.