Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other issues: A review of literature

• Main Author: Tomoki FUJII
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Poverty; literature review; poor; Asia; Asian Studies; Economics; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1939; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2938/viewcontent/Fujii_Concepts_poverty_adbi_asian_poverty_miracle.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...