In the economic literature on poverty, various methods have been proposed for measuring a
phenomenon known as 'vulnerability'. However, after more than a quarter century of …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Summarize the literature on the relationship between composite
socioeconomic indicators and mortality in different geographical areas of Brazil. METHODS …

While the measurement and determinants of poverty have been widely studied, vulnerability,
or the threat of future poverty, has been more difficult to investigate due to data paucity. We …

A method to measure vulnerability to multidimensional poverty is proposed under a mean–
risk behaviour approach. We extend the unidimensional downside mean–semideviation …

Harsh natural climatic environments, such as extreme weather and natural disasters, cause
devastating blows to production activities and increase the probability of geographic poverty …

We propose a new approach to develop vulnerability lines that are explicitly anchored to the
idea of a sub‐set of the population at risk of falling into poverty. We suggest that lines …

We propose families of measures for vulnerability to both individual and aggregate poverty.
We view vulnerability as the burden caused by the threat of poverty. Exposure to states of …

Abstract The European Union Cohesion Policy for the period 2021–2027 focuses on five
goals to make the European Union smarter, greener, more connected, more social and …

Drawing on three-wave panel data from the Vietnam Housing Living Standard Surveys
(VHLSS) 2010, 2012, and 2014 and employing a fuzzy method, this paper estimates chronic …

Background Poverty vulnerability has been defined as the likelihood of a family falling into
poverty in the upcoming months. Inequality is a major cause of poverty vulnerability in …