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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2009-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Cesar Calvo & Stefan Dercon
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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