This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty … literature with those in the filed of climate change. Such comparison could shed light on the understanding of the perceived and … poverty communities. The analysis shows that while vulnerability concepts in both the disciplines are defendable, broader …

highlight that the CED rates and vulnerability rates can be very different across two sub-groups of population. Hence, the …

size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability through its impact on household savings, labor supply, and parental … earnings and education of children. The paper is the most systematic attempt to date to show the links between family size and …

vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the … lines. Policy implications about the vulnerability assessment are also discussed. …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy …

Recent years have seen increasing interest in economic analyses of religion. We carry out a critical review of … Economics of Religion (EoR) in this review essay. We find that on the one hand EoR has made a significant contribution to … enhance our understanding of secular trappings of religion and to break the stranglehold of non-rational approach to religion …

child labor are to make it easier for children from poor families to access education and to increase the opportunity cost … child labor in Indonesia is significant. Like in other countries, this study finds that there is a strong link between the … child labor phenomenon and poverty. The profile of child labor largely mirrors the profile of poverty. Furthermore, poverty …