We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

approaches to index numbers; purchasing power parities for the measurement of regional and global inequality and poverty; and … inequality, inequality of opportunity, and measurement of insecurity (Part II); index number theory and applications to consumer … research interests are in the measurement of income inequality and poverty, and the application of Bayesian econometrics, and …

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty … discuss major shortcoming and challenges of the reporting and end with a brief conclusion. -- capability approach ; poverty …