household income in rural Cameroon. This class of established and coherent risk measures has been shown to meet a number of … portfolio approach it is possible to distinguish different livelihood systems for which the poverty and vulnerability measures … growers are suffering from chronic poverty, while transient poverty is more prevalent among the group of sorghum growers and …

Poverty and vulnerability, portfolio theory and diversification, small-scale fisheries, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon …. - Armut und Vulnerabilität, Portfolio Theorie und Diversifizierung, Kleinfischerei, Afrika südlich der Sahara, Kamerun …

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 … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public interventions are directed at helping those who have been …The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in … identified as poor, the government must broaden the scope of assessments and take account of the dynamics in poverty in public …