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Title Vulnerability to poverty : theory, measurement and determinants, with case studies from Thailand and Vietnam / edited by Stephan Klasen and Hermann Waibel.

Publication Info. Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Volker ... [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 / Jurgen Brunjes ... [et al.].
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Poverty -- Developing countries.
Poor -- Developing countries.
Poverty -- Thailand.
Poverty -- Vietnam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Klasen, Stephan, editor.
Waibel, Hermann, 1951- editor.
ISBN 9780230248915 (hbk.)
0230248918 (hbk.)
9780230306622 (e-book)

 
    
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