Household and community surveys on sustainable development in traditional societies in the South Pacific

本研究的主要目的是通过在斐济传统村庄进行家庭和社区调查，探讨基于亲属的网络和群体的各种问题和作用。这是在太平洋岛屿住户调查基础上进行的第一次系统的经验研究。我在2003年和2005年进行了两次调查，收集了关于人口、教育、健康、资产、生产、收入、转移和飓风冲击的数据。定量分析为文献中关注有限的以下问题提供了新的线索：1）针对村庄内的飓风救济：救济与风险分担和精英捕获的联系; 2）作为自我保险和相互保险的公地：小规模沿海捕鱼和用森林产品制作手工艺品的比较; 3）在仪式中对飓风风险的性别应对反应：与性别风险分担的联系; 4）私人转移中的网络和群体：家庭和群体转移的比较，挤出和精英捕获; 5）招聘欺诈受害：受害的私人转移的决定因素，原因和影响。我已经写了五篇论文，一篇即将在国际期刊上发表，两篇正在审查中，还有两篇正在准备提交。我还研究了飓风破坏和飓风救济，亲属社会的收入不平等和生计多样化所造成的风险分担的挤出。

The main purpose of this research is to examine various issues and roles of kin-based network and group, by conducting household and community surveys in traditional Fijian villages. This is a first systematic empirical study based on household surveys in the Pacific Islands. I conducted two surveys in 2003 and 2005, gathering data on demographics, education, health, assets, production, income, transfers, and cyclone shocks. Quantitative analyses shed new lights on the following issues which have received limited attention in the literature : 1) Targeting cyclone relief within the village : the link of relief with risk sharing and elite capture ; 2) Commons as self-insurance and mutual insurance : the comparison of small-scale coastal fishing and handicraft making from forest products ; 3) Gendered coping responses to cyclone risk in ritual : the link with gendered risk sharing ; 4) Networks and groups in private transfers : the comparison of household and group transfers, crowding-out, and elite capture ; 5) Recruitment fraud victimization : determinants of, reasons for, and impacts on private transfers of victimization. I have written five papers-one is forthcoming in an international journal, two are under review, and two are under preparation for submission. I have also studied the crowding-out of risk sharing caused by cyclone damage and cyclone relief, income inequality in the kin society, and livelihood diversification.