This paper investigates vulnerability to poverty in Haiti. Research in vulnerability in developing countries has been … methodology adopted here allows the assessment of vulnerability to poverty by exploiting the short panel structure of nested data … interesting policy implications in decentralizing policies to alleviate vulnerability to poverty. …

poverty and inequality. Results from our analysis show a good targeting but very limited effect on social protection, with the …

This paper discusses seven propositions: climate change and poverty are linked by the issue of vulnerability; the … and those who are better off; poverty cannot be understood in terms of lack of goods or income, or even basic needs, but …; emerging multi-dimensional measures of poverty are much better than those based on income or needs, but may continue to …

considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of … poverty to aggregate changes in income distribution. We illustrate the quantitative importance of such an approach through … decomposing poverty trends observed in the six major developing regions over the period 1980-98 under the assumption of a log …

This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on household consumption expenditure and poverty in …, including poverty status. The first results show that remittances have positive effects on the economy and reduce poverty. It is …

households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …