propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the … generates a vulnerability index, or predicted probability of future poverty, which performs well in predicting future poverty …Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

poverty and inequality in rural areas. While the poverty impacts of those programs are well documented in the literature less …High levels of inequality are a persistent feature of many rural areas in the developing world. Rural inequality is …'), while excluding the upper tail (i.e. ‘the rich') from the program, must lead to a reduction in inequality. In this paper we …

, circular and retroactive relationships with globalization, growth and poverty. The objective of this paper is to establish a … poverty. In this aim, the first section of paper presents critical evaluation of equity vs. equality debate, specifically …

The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …

is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …

along which societies and economies evolve over time in such a way as to cover sufciently diferent vulnerability patterns … take into account the most relevant factors that defne the vulnerability of human systems to climate change and their …

of the paper is the use of an ex ante food vulnerability estimate. Vulnerability is defined as the probability of falling … below a given threshold in the future. After constructing a vulnerability variable for each household, we run three separate …-employment), in order to evaluate the impact of vulnerability on participation to the non-agricultural sector. We take into account …