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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 429-438Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.019
Keywords
commons; self-insurance; mutual insurance; Pacific; Fiji
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16402012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Poor people rely on local commons not only for self-insurance, as commonly found, but also for mutual insurance, depending on resources and shocks. This paper demonstrates that this conjecture holds among cyclone victims in the Pacific Islands. On one hand, households increase coastal fishing and handicraft selling, but not forest-product gathering, to smooth income against own crop damage. On the other hand, households with undamaged housing intensify fishing to help other kin-group members with damaged housing. These distinct patterns of using commons as insurance are explained by distinct forms of risk sharing against these two shocks. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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