Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless … `vulnerability to poverty` as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before uncertainty is resolved. We describe … the desirable properties of a vulnerability measure as a set of axioms, and present a family of measures satisfying our …

We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular … characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues … vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that …

This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This … paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core. More specifically …, we define a vulnerability measure as an assessment of the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before …

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but currrent poverty still high in the developing word …, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor.  Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic …-resilient and less environmentally damaging deliver large scale poverty reduction?  Can aid be used for effective poverty reduction …