Vulnerability to Poverty (eBook)

JÜRGEN BRÜNJES Research Associate and lecturer at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany BERND HARDEWEG Post-doc Research Associate at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany VERA JUNGE Research Associate at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany NIELS KEMPER Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim, Germany CARMEN KISLAT Research Fellow at the Institute of Money and International Finance at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany RAINER KLUMP Professor of Economics, Economic Development and Economic Integration at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, since 2000 KAI MAUSCH Associate Professional Officer at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), currently based in Malawi TOBIAS LECHTENFELD Research Associate at the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Göttingen, Germany INGO LIEFNER Professor of Economic Geography at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany LUKAS MENKHOFF Professor of Money and International Finance at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany TUNG DUC PHUNG Development Economist and chairman of the Indochina Research and Consulting Company (IRC) in Hanoi, Vietnam FELIX POVEL PhD at the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Göttingen, Germany SUWANNA PRANEETVATKUL Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand JAVIER REVILLA DIEZ Professor of Economic Geography at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany ORNSIRI RUNGRUXSIRIVORN Senior Economist at the Ministry of Finance in Thailand DOMINIK SCHMID Junior Policy Advisor at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Eschborn, Germany ERICH SCHMIDT was Professor and Director of the Institute of Market Analyses and Agricultural Policy at the School of Economics and Management at the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany until his retirement in 2006 SONGPORNE TONGRUKSAWATTANA PhD in Development and Agricultural Economics from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany MARC VOELKER Statistical Office of the State Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Defining and Measuring Vulnerability: State of the Art and New Proposals; S.Klasen & F.Povel Establishing a Database for Vulnerability Assessment; B.Hardeweg , S.Klasen & H.Waibel Using Household Surveys to Capture Vulnerability: Issues and Challenges; S.Klasen , T.Lechtenfeld & F.Povel Mapping Vulnerability: Extending Static Poverty Maps for Vietnam; T.Lechtenfeld Rural-Rural Differences in Vietnamese Pro-Poor Growth: Does Households' Income Composition Make a Difference? K.Mausch , J.Diez & R.Klump Impact of Food Price Shocks on Vulnerability to Poverty: A Mathematical Programming Approach; M.Völke , S.Tongruksawattana , E.Schmidt & H.Waibel Agricultural Diversification and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Comparison between Vietnam and Thailand; S.Praneetvatakul , T.Phung & H.Waibel Ex-post Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Thailand and Vietnam; S.Tongruksawattana, V.Junge , H.Waibel , J.Diez & E.Schmidt Financial Shock-Coping in Rural Thailand and Vietnam; N.Kemper , R.Klump , L.Menkhoff & O.Rungruxsirivorn The Village Fund Loan Program: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It; C.Kislat & L.Menkhoff Participation in Regional Non-Farm Wage Activities: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam; J.Brünjes , D.Schmid , J.Diez & I.Liefner