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Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public interventions are directed at helping those who have been … policy. A critical dimension to poverty dynamics is vulnerability which conceptually pertains to the risk of future poverty …
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the changing role of the risk-mitigating social policies looking through the theoretical lenses of the risk society. The … state shifts towards promotion of individual responsibility for risk management. The welfare state policies can produce …, while the traditional mutual support among the household members still plays a major role in the risk management process. …
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