Economic vulnerability is approached from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. While the microeconomic perspective is … impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that … there is no single approach to understanding macroeconomic vulnerability in the context of financial and economic crises in …

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … vulnerability. A theoretical framework is developed to examine the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …

environmental problem, but it cannot solve it by itself leading the vulnerability of the country to almost zero. Our results show …

floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a … expenditure and revenues from transfer, which also depend on the degree of resilience and vulnerability. Through our analysis we …

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …

trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …