Coping with flood: role of institutions in Bangladesh
利用1998年孟加拉国洪灾后的家庭面板数据，分析农村家庭的应对策略及其对福利的影响，发现洪灾加剧了贫困脆弱性，但灾后丰收和小额信贷等制度有助于弥补损失。
Abstract The article examines the coping strategies that rural households adopted during the 1998 flood in Bangladesh and assesses its impact on household welfare, including coping and vulnerability. Both vulnerability and poverty have in general declined in Bangladesh. Yet, 60% of rural households adopted a coping of one type or another and about half of rural households were both vulnerable as well as found to adopt any coping mechanism during the 1998 flood. Household‐level panel data analysis confirms that the flood reduced both consumption and asset, and forced many households to adopt some coping mechanisms to mitigate the adverse effects of flood. Consequently, natural disaster such as flooding increases households' vulnerability to poverty. However, post‐flood bumper crop production and operation of targeted programs such as microfinance helped compensate the losses of flood.