acceleration with speedy relief and durable reduction in vulnerability to natural disasters. … disasters and the resulting mortality. Drawing together the main findings, some observations are made from a policy perspective … to focus on key elements of a disaster reduction strategy. Countries that were prone to natural disasters in the previous …

recurrent catastrophes. While our evidence points to growing vulnerability to natural disasters and their grave implications for … human security, a challenge for development assistance is to combine speedy relief with durable reduction in vulnerability …Various types of natural disasters (e.g. extreme temperatures and floods) became more frequent in 1998-09, relative to …

This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an ex-anti measure of well-being for Afghanistan using a … line. Our results show that poverty and vulnerability vary across geography and seasons and interestingly, areas most …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … coping strategies reduce the idiosyncratic and risk component of vulnerability. Hence, an important policy implication of our …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … agricultural households are likely to be the most vulnerable. The geographical diversity of vulnerability is considerable, for …

This paper uses a simple empirical approach to estimate vulnerability to food inadequacy using a cross-section data … are exposed to the same kind of shock. We find that the distribution of vulnerability to food inadequacy over education of …

This paper analyses vulnerability in Fiji, the Kyrgyz republic, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. In incorporating measures … of vulnerability there is no major departure from the perspective of MDG 1 Analyses of vulnerability, like that in the … by briefly surveying the empirical literature on vulnerability. It makes a distinction between vulnerability measures …

What are the root causes of Africa's current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … the 2001 Living Standard Measurement Survey. The incidence of inadequate food consumption and vulnerability to food …