Measuring Individual Vulnerability

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This implies that there is no meaningful role for risk as part of an assessment of potentially low states of well-being. In this paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of...

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Hlavní autoři: Calvo, C, Dercon, S
Médium: Working paper
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2005