consequences on individuals' welfare. In literature one of the concepts that aims to measure it is vulnerability to poverty, that …The recent common feeling about a skyrocketing economic risk has drawn increasing attention to its role and … is the probability, today, of being in poverty or to fall into deeper poverty in the future (The World Bank, 2011). This …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … cohort decomposition techniques focusing on second-order moments can be used to identify and estimate the variance of shocks … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …

particular health-related shocks, have larger impact on vulnerability to poverty than covariate shocks. These results are in line …This paper aims at characterizing poverty and vulnerability in Haiti based on a unique survey conducted in 2007 in …, unobservable idiosyncratic shocks appear to have generally more influence on households’ vulnerability than unobservable covariate …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … deal of social movement into and out of poverty. Furthermore, this paper advances the knowledge on vulnerability to poverty … in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …

vulnerability conditions facing poverty. …'s capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as …

The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … on the rise: moving from north to south, the risk of becoming poor in the future triples. Vulnerability analysis turns …

The paper assesses the extent of household vulnerability to poverty in Pakistan. Preferably, household panel data of … vulnerability as “expected poverty” using cross-sectional household surveys. The estimates show that about 52 percent population was … vulnerable to poverty during 2004-05. The rural headcount ratio in terms of household vulnerability is relatively high as …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …