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Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …
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Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …
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vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the … lines. Policy implications about the vulnerability assessment are also discussed. …
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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 …
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, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward looking way of analysing causes and … vulnerability. …
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substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …
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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
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