Monsoon rainfall is a key driver of economic life in rural Nepal as well as a major source of income variability. In this paper, the authors use a newly collected 3-year panel data set, representative of rural Nepal, merged with global monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the monsoon shock and to quantify household vulnerability to it. The authors find that the impact of the monsoon shock is concentrated in communities where water-intensive...
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2019/11/20
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144231
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2019/12/10
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The Monsoon Shock in Rural Nepal : Panel Evidence from the Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey
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monsoon rainfall