Vulnerability to Poverty: Theory, Measurement and Determinants, with Case Studies from Thailand and Vietnam

While Absolute Poverty In Emerging Economies Has Been Falling Substantially In Recent Years, Persistent Risks And Shocks, Ranging From Macro Shocks Such As High Food Prices To Micro Shocks Such As Drought Or Harvest Failure, Have Left Millions Of People In A Perpetual State Of Vulnerability To Poverty. As A Consequence, Development Policies In Emerging Economies Are Increasingly Moving From Fighting Current Poverty To Reducing Such Future Vulnerability To Poverty. This Book Provides A Comprehensive Treatment Of Measurement, Determinants And Policy Implications Of Vulnerability To Poverty. It Provides New Approaches To The Conceptualization And Measurement Of Vulnerability To Poverty Based On Custom-made Panel Data For Thailand And Vietnam And Analyses In Detail How Risks And Shocks Affect The Vulnerability Of Households In These Two Economies. In Addition, It Analyses The Determinants Of Vulnerability And Household Coping Strategies To Deal With Shocks And To Reduce Future Risks. It Also Derives Policy Implications To Reduce Vulnerability To Poverty And Examines The Impact Of Policies. 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.]. Edited By Stephan Klasen And Hermann Waibel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.