Vulnerability to Poverty : Theory, Measurement and Determinants

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction and Key Messages -- Part I Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Vulnerability Research -- 2 Defining and Measuring Vulnerability: State of the Art and New Proposals -- 3 Establishing a Database for Vulnerability Assessment -- 4 Using Household Surveys to Capture Vulnerability: Issues and Challenges -- 5 Mapping Vulnerability: Extending Static Poverty Maps for Vietnam -- 6 Rural-Rural Differences in Vietnamese Pro-Poor Growth: Does Households' Income Composition Make a Difference? -- Part II Drivers of Vulnerability, and Household Responses in Thailand and Vietnam -- 7 Impact of Food Price Shocks on Vulnerability to Poverty: A Mathematical Programming Approach -- 8 Agricultural Diversification and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Comparison between Vietnam and Thailand -- 9 Ex-Post Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Thailand and Vietnam -- 10 Financial Shock-Coping in Rural Thailand and Vietnam -- 11 The Village Fund Loan Programme: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It -- 12 Participation in Different Regional Non-Farm Wage Activities: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam -- Index.