Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2016
Abstract
This paper reviews the growing body of literature on vulnerability. We first provide a survey of existing studies on the concepts and measurements of vulnerability to poverty by classifying them into welfarist, expected poverty, and axiomatic approaches. We then review a number of empirical studies on vulnerability to poverty in Asia and elsewhere. This review shows that poverty and vulnerability are related, but different, and that key determinants of vulnerability often include education and location. We also briefly review other areas of vulnerability analysis such as vulnerability to climate change and offer various policy implications arising from vulnerability analysis.
Keywords
Poverty, literature review, poor, Asia
Discipline
Asian Studies | Economics | Place and Environment
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Publication
The Asian "poverty miracle": Impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements?
Editor
Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan
First Page
53
Last Page
83
ISBN
9781785369148
Identifier
10.4337/9781785369155
Publisher
Edward Elgar
City or Country
Cheltenham
Citation
Tomoki FUJII.
Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other issues: A review of literature. (2016). The Asian "poverty miracle": Impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements?. 53-83.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1939
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785369155