Following on from the existing poverty assessments of trade liberalisation in Vietnam under "doi moi", the aim of this …: it sheds light on the timely debate on vulnerability to poverty from trade openness focusing on micro linkages between … proposes a new vulnerability measure capable of assessing, besides the non-stochastic poverty determinants and the observed …

/or vulnerability-reducing effect in Vietnam and India. To take account of sample selection bias associated with RNFE, we have applied … consistent with poverty reducing role of accessing RNFE - with the aggregate effect larger in Vietnam than in India. Access to … reduces poverty and vulnerability in India, this has considerable policy significance as the rural poor do not have easy …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India - which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India – which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …

household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model … to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …