risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most of them use a pre-determined threshold such as the poverty line as …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …

's capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as … economic capabilities (employment, leisure) are those which explain the high level of total poverty. These results are …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

consumption volatility. A household’s currently observed poverty status might therefore not be a good indicator of the household …’s general poverty risk, or in other words its vulnerability to poverty. Although several measurements to analyze vulnerability … to poverty have recently been proposed, empirical studies are still rare as the data requirements for these measurements …

risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most of them use a pre-determined threshold such as the poverty line as …

risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most of them use a pre-determined threshold such as the poverty line as …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …