) 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 …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

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 …

included in the analysis persistent poverty does appear to be on the increase. An increase in vulnerability, that is, swinging …Income poverty in Germany has reached its highest level for twenty years. This statistic is often seen as proof of the … poverty. If the duration of individual phases of poverty and the different dimensions of life in which need can occur are …

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 …

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 …

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 …