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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis on the dimension of adaptive capacity, i.e. the...
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How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their reference group on life satisfaction. We do so by examining...
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Poverty Index (Dotter & Klasen, 2014). However, its operable nature in the field of evaluation of specific dimension such as … education, gender and poverty from a diffuse perspective is even broader (Addabbo, Di Tommaso & Facchinetti, 2004; Martinetti …
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The capability approach developed by Sen represents a proposal for the evaluation of individual well-being and social development centered on people and away - but not exclusive - of materiality. In the present article describes the capability approach developed by Sen and examines the...
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mitigating drought-induced poverty and consumption declines. Using the MicroZAMOD microsimulation model and districtlevel … rainfall data, we find that rainfall shocks significantly increase poverty and reduce household consumption, disproportionately …
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, vulnerability as Expected Poverty (VEP) is used to measure the vulnerability to poverty, that is, the probability of a household … income to fall below the poverty line, as it captures the impact of shocks can be conducted in the cross-sectional study. It … applies two poverty thresholds: the national poverty line after taking into account the inflation rate and the international …
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Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...
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over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
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