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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hardeweg, Bernd
• Wagener, Andreas
• Waibel, Hermann

Titel

A distributional approach to comparing vulnerability, applied to rural provinces in Thailand and Vietnam

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Asian economics, 2013-04, Vol.25, p.53-65

Ort / Verlag

Greenwich: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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• ► Vulnerability to poverty measures the risk of falling into, or staying in, consumption or income poverty in the future. ► The theory of stochastic dominance orders provides tools to establish ethically robust vulnerability comparisons. ► The vulnerability to poverty in six rural provinces in Thailand and Vietnam is compared. ► In the poorest provinces, vulnerability to poverty is unambiguously larger in Vietnam than in Thailand. Vulnerability to poverty is an important social indicator of well-being. Yet, comparisons of vulnerability over time or space lack robustness as long as they are based on single measures or use specific poverty lines. We demonstrate that a distributional analysis, based on stochastic dominance orders, can help. Using data from six rural provinces of Thailand and Vietnam, we establish cumulative distribution functions for income and consumption at the provincial level and show how they can provide ethically robust vulnerability comparisons.