This paper analyses vulnerability in Fiji, the Kyrgyz republic, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. In incorporating measures … of vulnerability there is no major departure from the perspective of MDG1 Analyses of vulnerability, like that in the … strategy runs the risk of becoming a statistical artefact with little relevance to the welfare of the poor. This paper begins …

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 … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India. …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … coping strategies reduce the idiosyncratic and risk component of vulnerability. Hence, an important policy implication of our …Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary … significant effects on reducing vulnerability of households in 1993 and 2004. We also applied the pseudo panel model which …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large …

needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …