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Naudé et al. (2009) present an exploration into economic vulnerability from a subnational, district-level perspective …. Their paper is an important and timely contribution because it recognises the heterogeneous nature of vulnerability across …) augmenting their model to take account of spatial contiguity, ii) comparing spatial and aspatial local vulnerability index …
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highlight that the CED rates and vulnerability rates can be very different across two sub-groups of population. Hence, the …
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This paper attempts to construct a picture of socioeconomic context of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that … out at the district level. Vulnerability of a particular district is measured by the frequency of occurrence of extreme … states. The study aims to build a vulnerability index and rank the various coastal districts of these highly vulnerable …
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, vulnerability and exposure to risk, or lack of voice and power. To combat social exclusion, interventions cannot be limited only to … the groups that are in this situation, but that is needed "to intervene in the area of vulnerability, which are reaching … Canary Islands (1998)).<br> Despite the abundant literature on the study of social exclusion and vulnerability, papers …
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examine the concept of vulnerability, defined as the possibility that future levels of consumption may be below the poverty … explaining the incidence of poverty in Cartagena. However, vulnerability is greater than poverty itself, so that most of the city …
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We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
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This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...
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address a wide array of risks and associated vulnerability. For the poorest of the poor one of their key concerns is access to …
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We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
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We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193738