Vulnerability to Poverty [[electronic resource] ] : Theory, Measurement and Determinants, with Case Studies from Thailand and Vietnam / / edited by Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5091724
• Soggetto topico: Regional economics; Microeconomics; Development economics; Poverty; Finance, Public; International economics; Regional/Spatial Science; Development Economics; Development Aid; Public Finance; International Economics
• Persona (resp. second.): KlasenStephan; WaibelHermann
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction and key messages / Stephan Klasen and Hermann Waibel -- Defining and measuring vulnerability : state of the art and new proposals / Stephan Klasen and Felix Povel -- Establishing a database for vulnerability assessment / Bernd Hardeweg, Stephen Klasen and Hermann Waibel -- Using household surveys to capture vulnerability : issues and challenges / Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld and Felix Povel -- Mapping vulnerability : extending static poverty maps for Vietnam / Tobias Lechtenfeld -- Rural-rural differences in Vietnamese pro-poor growth : does households' income composition make a difference? / Kai Mausch, Javier Revilla Diez and Rainer Klump -- Impact of food price shocks on vulnerability to poverty : a mathematical programming approach / Marc Völker ... [et al.] -- Agricultural diversification and vulnerability to poverty : a comparison between Vietnam and Thailand / Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Tung Duc Phung and Hermann Waibel -- Ex-post coping strategies of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam / Songporne Tongruksawattana ... [et al.] -- Financial shock-coping in rural Thailand and Vietnam / Niels Kemper ... [et al.] -- The village fund loan programme : who gets it, keeps it and loses it / Carmen Kislat and Lukas Menkhoff -- Participation in different regional non-farm wage activities : evidence from Thailand and Vietnam / Jürgen Brünjes ... [et al.].
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Vulnerability to Poverty
• ISBN: 0-230-30662-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797135303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II