Vulnerability to Poverty

1. Introduction and Key Messages
Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel

Part I. Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Vulnerability Research

2. Defining and Measuring Vulnerability: State of the Art and New Proposals
Stephan Klasen, Felix Povel

3. Establishing a Database for Vulnerability Assessment
Bernd Hardeweg, Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel

4. Using Household Surveys to Capture Vulnerability: Issues and Challenges
Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Felix Povel

5. Mapping Vulnerability: Extending Static Poverty Maps for Vietnam
Tobias Lechtenfeld

6. Rural—Rural Differences in Vietnamese Pro-Poor Growth: Does Households’ Income Composition Make a Difference?
Kai Mausch, Javier Revilla Diez, Rainer Klump

Part II. Drivers of Vulnerability, and Household Responses in Thailand and Vietnam

7. Impact of Food Price Shocks on Vulnerability to Poverty: A Mathematical Programming Approach
Marc Völker, Songporne Tongruksawattana, Erich Schmidt, Hermann Waibel

8. Agricultural Diversification and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Comparison between Vietnam and Thailand
Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Tung Duc Phung, Hermann Waibel

9. Ex-Post Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Thailand and Vietnam
Songporne Tongruksawattana, Vera Junge, Hermann Waibel, Javier Revilla Diez, Erich Schmidt

10. Financial Shock-Coping in Rural Thailand and Vietnam
Niels Kemper, Rainer Klump, Lukas Menkhoff, Ornsiri Rungruxsirivorn

11. The Village Fund Loan Programme: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It?
Carmen Kislat, Lukas Menkhoff

12. Participation in Different Regional Non-Farm Wage Activities: Evidence x
Jürgen Brünjes, Dominik Schmid, Javier Revilla Diez, Ingo Liefner

Avainsanat: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Microeconomics, Development Economics, Poverty, Aid and Development, Public Finance, International Economics