Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises
汇总17个发展中国家的实地研究，揭示2008-2011年多重危机下人们面临的粮食不安全、债务和压力等困境，分析应对策略的性别与年龄差异，指出非正式安全网在危机中耗尽，需加强正式保护体系。
Abstract This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during 2008–2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread reports of food insecurity, debt, asset loss, stress, and worsening crime and community cohesion. There were important gender and age differences in the distribution of impacts and coping responses, with women often acting as shock absorbers. The more common sources of assistance were family, friends, community-based and religious organisations with formal social protection and finance less important. The traditional informal safety nets of the poor became depleted as the crisis deepened, pointing to the need for better formal systems for coping with future shocks.