Vulnerability to Poverty

Theory, Measurement and Determinants, with Case Studies from Thailand and Vietnam

  • Stephan Klasen
  • Hermann Waibel
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction and Key Messages

    1. Introduction and Key Messages
      Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel
      Pages 1-14

  3. Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Vulnerability Research

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. Defining and Measuring Vulnerability: State of the Art and New Proposals
      Stephan Klasen, Felix Povel
      Pages 17-49
    3. Establishing a Database for Vulnerability Assessment
      Bernd Hardeweg, Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel
      Pages 50-79
    4. Using Household Surveys to Capture Vulnerability: Issues and Challenges
      Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Felix Povel
      Pages 80-114
    5. Mapping Vulnerability: Extending Static Poverty Maps for Vietnam
      Tobias Lechtenfeld
      Pages 115-135
    6. Rural—Rural Differences in Vietnamese Pro-Poor Growth: Does Households’ Income Composition Make a Difference?
      Kai Mausch, Javier Revilla Diez, Rainer Klump
      Pages 136-159

  4. Drivers of Vulnerability, and Household Responses in Thailand and Vietnam

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 161-161
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    2. Impact of Food Price Shocks on Vulnerability to Poverty: A Mathematical Programming Approach
      Marc Völker, Songporne Tongruksawattana, Erich Schmidt, Hermann Waibel
      Pages 163-188
    3. Agricultural Diversification and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Comparison between Vietnam and Thailand
      Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Tung Duc Phung, Hermann Waibel
      Pages 189-215
    4. Ex-Post Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Thailand and Vietnam
      Songporne Tongruksawattana, Vera Junge, Hermann Waibel, Javier Revilla Diez, Erich Schmidt
      Pages 216-257
    5. Financial Shock-Coping in Rural Thailand and Vietnam
      Niels Kemper, Rainer Klump, Lukas Menkhoff, Ornsiri Rungruxsirivorn
      Pages 258-282
    6. The Village Fund Loan Programme: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It?
      Carmen Kislat, Lukas Menkhoff
      Pages 283-304
    7. Participation in Different Regional Non-Farm Wage Activities: Evidence x
      Jürgen Brünjes, Dominik Schmid, Javier Revilla Diez, Ingo Liefner
      Pages 305-334
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 335-337
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Developing Countries development development economics economic geography growth poverty

Editors and affiliations

  • Stephan Klasen
    • 1
  • Hermann Waibel
    • 2
  1. 1.University of GöttingenGermany
  2. 2.School of Economics and ManagementLeibniz Universität HannoverGermany

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