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Vulnerability to Poverty in Papua New Guinea in 1996
Author(s) -
Jha Raghbendra,
Dang Tu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asian economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-8381
pISSN - 1351-3958
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2010.02038.x
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , poverty , new guinea , economics , consumption (sociology) , development economics , socioeconomics , geography , economic growth , sociology , social science , ethnology , computer security , computer science
This paper uses cross‐section data from the 1996 Papua New Guinea Household Survey to assess household vulnerability to poverty in Papua New Guinea. Vulnerability varies across regions, household size, gender and level of education of households. We use a simple empirical model that permits estimation of vulnerability to poverty assuming that households have the same conditional distribution of consumption in a stationary environment. Although this approach does not capture all dimensions of vulnerability, it at least raises the policy interest that vulnerability should be considered alongside poverty.