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 … out to be a useful tool which should complement the traditional analysis of poverty. …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …

This study aims at measuring the impact of world price volatility and import tariffs on rice on poverty in Indonesia …. Applying a Computable General Equilibrium-Microsimulation approach and the endogenous poverty line, this study found that the … volatility of world rice prices during 2007 to 2010 had a large effect on the poverty incidence in Indonesia. The simulation …

; rural households, who have a high poverty risk, manage to smooth food expenditures quite well, most likely because they have … shocks during the transition and in what manner the ability to smooth consumption is related to poverty risk. We use data … standard increases. However, below average consumption smoothing abilities are not always associated with higher poverty risk …

international and internal remittances increased both income and consumption expenditures of the recipients. The impact of … remittances on non-food expenditures tended to be higher than the impact on food expenditures. For international remittances, the … impact on income was much higher than the impact on consumption expenditures. It means that a large proportion of …

the German and the Lower Saxonian persons in the household context and their willingness for expenditures are stated. As … marginal consumption rates, and lower “minimum expenditures” in Lower Saxony than in Germany as a whole. These results are …