Vulnerability: A Micro Perspective

By Stefan Dercon. 2006

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Choosing dimensions: the capability approach and multidimensional poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 88. (2007, unknown): “The ‘future’ section would be populated by estimations of vulnerability where vulnerability is understood to be the threat of future poverty (Dercon 2005).”
Climate Change, Agriculture And Poverty (2010, background): “Dercon (2005) found that, due to the covariate nature of shocks from droughts, households were unable to insure against them using traditional risk sharing mechanisms such as local credit, asset markets, transfers from local households and networks.”
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Rich and Poor Countries: Current Modeling Practice and Potential for Empirical Contributions (2012, background): “Dercon (2005) finds that it took households in Ethiopia an average of ten years to rebuild livestock holdings in the wake of drought.”
Household-Level Consumption in Urban Ethiopia: The Effects of a Large Food Price Shock (2012, background): “For an excellent survey of the micro literature on risk, vulnerability and poverty, see Dercon (2006).”
A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class (2011, background): “See for example the discussion by Ligon and Schechter (2004) and Dercon (2002).”
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution (2014, background): “Gertler and Gruber (2002) and DeWeerdt and Dercon (2006) observe that informal insurance helps finance the expenditure needs of individuals who suffer negative health shocks.”