Vulnerability - Matches

The lack of access to transportation, decent employment and timely government intervention could send a lot of nonpoor households to poor status in th..

Natural disasters, together with other shocks, have contributed to the vulnerability of both poor and nonpoor Filipino households to poverty. While th..

Using the panel data for the Philippines in 2003-2009, the paper estimates a three-level random coefficient model to measure household vulnerability a..

Globally, the rise of new and unexpected risks and shocks has impacted stable and poor societies alike, and some, especially the latter, have become i..

The principal target the government has set in its Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) is zero rice importation by 2013. Whether or not this targe..

Vulnerability to natural hazards is measured like hazard frequencies that reflect the predisposition of a system to extreme events at a certain instan..

The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with t..

Despite the many propoor policies, programs, and projects instituted, the country's gains in the fight against poverty have still been modest. This No..

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about the need not only to monitor curr..

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate househol..

This Notes calls for the need to regularly come up with household vulnerability measurements and trends in the Philippines, in addition to official po..

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using..

This paper investigates determinants of shifts in living standards for Vietnamese households, measured by the difference in consumption at two differe..

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from recent research by the author us..

The recent spate of banking and currency crises has underscored the need to develop early warning systems. These are based on economic indicators..