Vulnerability to Poverty [electronic resource] : Theory, Measurement and Determinants, with Case Studies from Thailand and Vietnam /
Klasen, Stephan.editor.
Waibel, Hermann.editor.
With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and key messages / Stephan Klasen and Hermann Waibel -- Defining and measuring vulnerability : state of the art and new proposals / Stephan Klasen and Felix Povel -- Establishing a database for vulnerability assessment / Bernd Hardeweg, Stephen Klasen and Hermann Waibel -- Using household surveys to capture vulnerability : issues and challenges / Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld and Felix Povel -- Mapping vulnerability : extending static poverty maps for Vietnam / Tobias Lechtenfeld -- Rural-rural differences in Vietnamese pro-poor growth : does households' income composition make a difference? / Kai Mausch, Javier Revilla Diez and Rainer Klump -- Impact of food price shocks on vulnerability to poverty : a mathematical programming approach / Marc Völker ... [et al.] -- Agricultural diversification and vulnerability to poverty : a comparison between Vietnam and Thailand / Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Tung Duc Phung and Hermann Waibel -- Ex-post coping strategies of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam / Songporne Tongruksawattana ... [et al.] -- Financial shock-coping in rural Thailand and Vietnam / Niels Kemper ... [et al.] -- The village fund loan programme : who gets it, keeps it and loses it / Carmen Kislat and Lukas Menkhoff -- Participation in different regional non-farm wage activities : evidence from Thailand and Vietnam / Jürgen Brünjes ... [et al.].
With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries.
Regional economics.
Microeconomics.
Development economics.
Poverty.
Finance, Public.
International economics.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Microeconomics.
Development Economics.
Development Aid.
Public Finance.
International Economics.