Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty : A Proposed Measure, Applied to Indonesia

Vulnerability is an important aspect of households' experience of poverty. Many households, while not currently in poverty, recognize that they are vulnerable to events - a bad harvest, a lost job, an illness, and unexpected expense, an economic downturn - that could easily push them into pover...

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Main Authors:	Pritchett, Lant, Suryahadi, Asep, Sumarto, Sudarno
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	poverty measurement quantitative analysis vulnerability household welfare indicators household expenditure surveys poverty incidence consumption patterns income gaps headcount index panel analysis gender issues level of education urban-rural drift land ownership occupational classification average level chronic poverty chronically poor consumption expenditures consumption module counterfactual data set data sets decomposable poverty measures density function developed countries developing countries development economics development studies economics economies of scale education level error term expenditures female-headed households financial support headcount poverty headcount ratio health insurance household characteristics household consumption household consumption expenditures household expenditures household head household survey income income risk indicator targeting inequality informal sector insurance mean consumption mean expenditures mean income national poverty national poverty reduction strategy old age participatory poverty participatory poverty assessments policy implications policy level policy research political economy political economy of targeting poor households poverty analysis poverty assessments poverty dynamics poverty line poverty lines poverty measure poverty profiles poverty programs poverty rate poverty rates poverty reduction rural areas rural households rural residence safety net safety nets sample size savings social development social impacts social insurance social insurance programs social protection social security standard deviation targeting transient poverty transition economies unemployment urban areas urban households
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21355

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