Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … vulnerability. A theoretical framework is developed to examine the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …

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 …

vulnerability, reinforcement and prevention of risks for the affected inhabitants and the places where they live. Depending on the … situation, vulnerability is found in the quality or frequency of the following aspects: 1) travel between places of residence; 2 …

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 …

index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It … vulnerability is a main determinant of the distribution of prevention spending but conditioned on being affected by climatological …

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 results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …