specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests are used. Madhya Pradesh demonstrated much better targeting than Tamil … Nadu in terms of the FGT class of poverty indices over a wide range of poverty thresholds. This finding is significant as …

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 … coping strategies reduce the idiosyncratic and risk component of vulnerability. Hence, an important policy implication of our …

least begins to raise the policy issue that vulnerability should be considered alongside poverty. … concept of vulnerability as expected poverty to assess the household vulnerability to poverty in four Central Asian countries …: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Except for Tajikistan, headcount poverty and vulnerability rates are …

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

participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …