The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … on the rise: moving from north to south, the risk of becoming poor in the future triples. Vulnerability analysis turns …

This article carries out a validation exercise of vulnerability measures as predictors of poverty at the aggregate and … deprivation indicators. The main findings indicate that while vulnerability measures are good predictors of poverty in the … aggregate, the same does not occur at household level. These results imply that while useful, vulnerability estimates require …

productivity and reduce poverty. Further evidence is provided on the role of extension in reducing vulnerability as expected …The present study examines whether agricultural extension improves household crop productivity, reduces poverty as well … as vulnerability in rural Uganda drawing upon Uganda National Panel Survey data in 2009-10. We first estimate household …

reduces poverty and vulnerability in India, this has considerable policy significance as the rural poor do not have easy …The present study examines whether employment in the rural non-farm sector (RNFE) has any poverty-reducing and …/or vulnerability-reducing effect in Vietnam and India. To take account of sample selection bias associated with RNFE, we have applied …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

vulnerability conditions facing 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 …

) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data …In this paper we propose a new measure of vulnerability called vulnerability to downside risk. The relevant benchmark … for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …, because even unskilled or manual non-farm employment significantly reduces poverty and vulnerability in India and poverty in …

extension programmes in reducing poverty and vulnerability drawing upon LSMS panel data in Uganda in 2009-2012 covering three … share of households was found to be vulnerable and education was found to be the key to reducing poverty and vulnerability … with poverty or vulnerability alleviation policies targeting smallholders or the landless households. …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and …