Search Results - subject:"Coping/strategies"

On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks

Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies that re …

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

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Coping strategies in post-war rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

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Do You Have A Survival Instinct? Leveraging genetic codes to achieve fit inhostile business environments

Lawton, T; Rajwani, T; Reinmoeller, P - 2011

It is too easy to blame market turbulence or unexpected events for a company'spoor performance. Yet this is frequently the response of managers tocircumstances and activities beyond their immediate control. As a consequence,managers and owners often fail to develop strategies for coping with...

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Expectations, Realities and Coping Strategies of Elderly Women in a Village of Bangladesh

Sultana, Tamima - Bangladesh Development Research Center (BRDC) - 2011

This paper focuses on the socio-economic status of elderly women, based on 20 elderly women in the village North-Doulatpur in Phulgazi Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh. Information had been collected through in-depth interviews, and then, on the basis of interviews, seven case studies have been...

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Le développement d’une mesure situationnelle des stratégies de coping des adolescents confrontés à la critique de leurs pairs sur un choix de marque

Benmoyal-Bouzaglo, Sarah; Guiot, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

situational measure of adolescents’ coping strategies is here developed, that means we want to measure the way a teenager handles … and valid measure of five coping strategies: justification of the purchase circumstances, denial of the problem, revenge …

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Household capacities, vulnerabilities and food insecurity: Shifts in food insecurity in urban and rural Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis

Hadley, Craig; Linzer, Drew A.; Belachew, Tefera; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 10, pp. 1534-1542

The global food crisis of 2008 led to renewed interest in global food insecurity and how macro-level food prices impact household and individual level wellbeing. There is debate over the extent to which food price increases in 2008 eroded food security, the extent to which this effect was...

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Meeting the four‐hour deadline in an A&E department

Eatock, Julie; Clarke, Malcolm; Picton, Claire; Young, Terry - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 25 (2011) 6, pp. 606-624

around four hours, caused by the coping strategies used to meet the operational standards imposed by government. The aim of … this paper is to build a discrete‐event simulation model that captures the coping strategies and more accurately reflects …. Practical implications – This demonstrates that the coping strategies, such as re‐prioritising patients based on current length …

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Life Satisfaction and Positive Adjustment as Predictors of Emotional Distress in Men With Coronary Heart Disease

Sanjuán, Pilar; Ruiz, Ángeles; Pérez, Ana - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 12 (2011) 6, pp. 1035-1047

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