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Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
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Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651637
This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty … poverty communities. The analysis shows that while vulnerability concepts in both the disciplines are defendable, broader … policy relevant statements about vulnerability could be made if the analysis clearly identifies three primitives introduced …
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highlight that the CED rates and vulnerability rates can be very different across two sub-groups of population. Hence, the …
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size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability through its impact on household savings, labor supply, and parental …
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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. …
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This paper reviews some literatures on the mechanisms available for the poor in managing risk. Lacking access to formal mechanisms of risk management, the poor rely on informal mechanisms, which are built based on the existing social networks and trust. But when the shocks are big or affecting...
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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 …
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