The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …

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 …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

This paper highlights the key characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and … in analytical work on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either only the quantitative … approach or only the qualitative approach in measuring and analyzing poverty is often likely to be less desirable than …