present paper, emphasize the fact that the debates around poverty-growth elasticities are premised on the assumption of a … risks - both general and idiosyncratic - which affect their welfare. Thus poverty should not be viewed in static terms but … as a matter of extrapolating from existing poverty levels using such computed growth poverty elasticities. Such a …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

household head is more significant than that of observed food poverty. Our results support the argument that senior primary and …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … inadequacy are more severe than overall poverty and vulnerability to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability in Timor-Leste' is …

vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare. In this paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty …, vulnerability (and poverty) is largely a rural phenomenon. Moreover, the distribution of vulnerability across different segments of … the population can differ significantly from the distribution of poverty. In addition, there is a sizable fraction of the …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …

expenditures, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare than poverty. In this … paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty, examine the importance of its determinants in the … populations of these countries facing the risk of poverty are considerably different from those observed to be poor. Moreover, the …

We examine the profile of poverty and vulnerability in Tajikistan using household level panel data for 2004 and 2005 …. The drop in poverty was largely due to increase in remittances from workers working overseas. People are more likely to be … poverty. With expected utility approach, our analysis suggests that vulnerability associated with inequality is very large …