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Vulnerability to poverty : theory, measurement and determinants, with case studies from Thailand and Vietnam /

While absolute poverty in emerging economies has been falling substantially in recent years, persistent risks and shocks, ranging from macro shocks such as high food prices to micro shocks such as drought or harvest failure, have left millions of people in a perpetual state of vulnerability to pover...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klasen, Stephan, Waibel, Hermann, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Notes on Contributors ; 1 Introduction and Key Messages ; Part I Conceptual and Measurement Issues ; 2 Defining and Measuring Vulnerability: State of the Art and New Proposals.
  • 3 Establishing a Database for Vulnerability Assessment 4 Using Household Surveys to Capture Vulnerability: Issues and Challenges ; 5 Mapping Vulnerability: Extending Static Povert Maps for Vietnam.
  • 6 Rural-Rural Differences in Vietnamese Pro-Poor Growth: Does Households' Income Composition Make a Difference? Part II Drivers of Vulnerability, and Household Responses in Thailand and Vietnam ; 7 Impact of Food Price Shocks on Vulnerability to Poverty: A Mathematical Programming Approach.
  • 8 Agricultural Diversification and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Comparison between Vietnam and Thailand 9 Ex-Post Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Thailand and Vietnam ; 10 Financial Shock-Coping in Rural Thailand and Vietnam Niels Kemper, Rainer Klump, Lukas Menkhoff and.
  • 11 The Village Fund Loan Programme: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It 12 Participation in Different Regional Non-Farm Wage Activities: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam ; Index.