Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some …

potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using a panel data set in Indonesia. We focus on the effect of drought and flood …, two of the commonly observed disasters there. Our simulation results indicate that vulnerability to poverty may increase …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

"abgehängten Unterklasse" gesehen. In anderen Szenarien erscheinen große Teile der Gesellschaft vom Absturz in die Armut bedroht … auftreten, in die Analyse ein, so zeigt sich eine Zunahme verfestigter Armut. Eine Ausbreitung der Prekarität, d. h. des … Pendelns zwischen der "Mitte" und der "Armut", ist nicht zu beobachten. Hauptbetroffene verfestigter Armut sind nach wie vor …

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … probability of a household or individual falling into poverty in the future. Based on this definition and using household survey … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …

number of interrelated headings: (1) Chronic vs. transient poverty; (2) Poverty and vulnerability; (3) The determination of …The objective of this paper is to review a number of issues related to poverty, while taking stock of the ongoing … research. Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the dynamics of …

size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability through its impact on household savings, labor supply, and parental …This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from … poverty in the Philippines using household survey data. The clear implication of the results is that, in the case of the …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …

Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household … welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have significant adverse effects on household consumption, human capital … that the coping strategies adopted by the poor to deal with the short-term effects of the crises, and which include …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates …