larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site … earning dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because … other measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters …

Analysis of data from Brazil suggest that poverty responds asymmetrically to output shocks, showing less tendency to … fall in response to a positive shock when the economy is initially in a downturn …

For Russian households coping with economic hardship in the wake of the recent financial crisis, the choice of survival … strategy has strongly depended on their human capital. The higher a household's level of human capital, the more likely it is …