of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the …Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …

In quantitative risk analyses for natural hazards, vulnerability can be expressed as the ratio of reconstruction … at risk exposed. To discuss the building vulnerability under debris flow events, the ratio is mostly related to debris … individual building conditions. This study proposes a flowchart to establish building vulnerability curves through estimating the …

. Hopefully, this approach might ameliorate the current situation in Taiwan, where some important stakeholders have been too …

understanding poverty- might contribute to the analysis of vulnerability. …Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple …

Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …

vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about … the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …