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vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare. In this study we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty … (PNG). We find that in PNG, vulnerability and poverty are largely rural phenomena. Moreover, the distribution of … vulnerability across different segments of the population can differ significantly from the distribution of poverty. In addition …
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Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3 to 29.7 % of the population). In this … paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability … 10, and 14 % of those in the middle class experience poverty at least once over a 10-year period. Furthermore, chronic …
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wages. It is opined in the literature that this change has contributed and increased emphasis on poverty reduction through … employment. This paper investigates how different monetary and non-monetary indicators effect on the poverty among RMG workers in … zones in Bangladesh. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) this study developed a new method for measuring poverty. Among …
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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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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516589
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 …
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the concepts and measurements of vulnerability to poverty by classifying them into welfarist, expected poverty, and … axiomatic approaches. We then review a number of empirical studies on vulnerability to poverty in Asia and elsewhere. This … review shows that poverty and vulnerability are related, but different, and that key determinants of vulnerability often …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098965
The idea that resilience plays a role in mitigating the effects of disaster and climate change is be- coming widespread across the development community. Consequently, the concept of resilience has been translated into actionable metrics. In this paper, we use panel micro-data from coffee...
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