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Vulnerability to poverty

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Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless, the term 'vulnerability' has been used as a tool to remark that uncertainty and risk do matter. In this paper, we define 'vulnerability to poverty' as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex- ante, before uncertainty is resolved. We describe the desirable properties of a vulnerability measure as a set of axioms, and present a family of measures satisfying ou...

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"Universidad de Piura", "University of Oxford"
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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
International Development
Research group:
Development economics
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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CSAE working paper series
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http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
Publication date:
2007-01-01
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English
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ora:2584
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2009-02-10

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