Chaudhuri, Shubham; Jalan, Jyotsna; Suryahadi, Asep - Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences - 2002
A household's observed poverty status is an ex-post measure of a household's well-being (or lack thereof). But for thinking about forward-looking anti-poverty interventions that aim to prevent rather than alleviate poverty, what really matters is the vulnerability of households to poverty, i.e.,...