Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty

A Proposed Measure, Applied to Indonesia

• Author(s): Lant Pritchett, Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto,
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Pages: 31
• Language: en

Description:... Typically only a small proportion of the population is chronically poor; many more are not always poor but vulnerable to episodes or seasons of proverty and would be interested inprograms that reduce the risks they face