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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 338-353 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Development Studies |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 27 Jan 2011 |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2011 |
Abstract
This paper analyses vulnerability to poverty of rural small-scale fishing communities using cross-section data from 295 households in Cameroon and 267 in Nigeria. We propose a vulnerability measure that incorporates the idea of asset poverty into the concept of expected poverty, which allows decomposing expected poverty into expected structural-chronic, structural-transient, and stochastic-transient poverty. The findings show that most households in our study areas are expected to be structurally-chronic and structurally-transient poor. This underlines the importance of asset formation for long-term poverty reduction strategies. Further refinements are possible with longitudinal data and information about future states of nature.
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In: Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, 02.2011, p. 338-353.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - An asset-based approach to vulnerability
T2 - The case of small-scale fishing areas in Cameroon and Nigeria
AU - Chiwaula, Levison S.
AU - Witt, Rudolf
AU - Waibel, Hermann
N1 - Funding Information: We thank the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for the financial support of the project on ‘Food security and poverty alleviation through improved valuation and governance of river fisheries in Africa’, which was coordinated by the World Fish Centre. Comments by Christopher Barrett and Felix Naschold to an earlier version of this paper are also appreciated. The authors also thank two anonymous referees for their very thorough review of the paper and their extremely valuable comments. We also want to thank the editor for the excellent guidance of the review process and additional useful comments on the paper. The views expressed in this paper are not necessarily those of the donor agency nor of our project partner, the World Fish Centre. All the remaining errors are ours.
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - This paper analyses vulnerability to poverty of rural small-scale fishing communities using cross-section data from 295 households in Cameroon and 267 in Nigeria. We propose a vulnerability measure that incorporates the idea of asset poverty into the concept of expected poverty, which allows decomposing expected poverty into expected structural-chronic, structural-transient, and stochastic-transient poverty. The findings show that most households in our study areas are expected to be structurally-chronic and structurally-transient poor. This underlines the importance of asset formation for long-term poverty reduction strategies. Further refinements are possible with longitudinal data and information about future states of nature.
AB - This paper analyses vulnerability to poverty of rural small-scale fishing communities using cross-section data from 295 households in Cameroon and 267 in Nigeria. We propose a vulnerability measure that incorporates the idea of asset poverty into the concept of expected poverty, which allows decomposing expected poverty into expected structural-chronic, structural-transient, and stochastic-transient poverty. The findings show that most households in our study areas are expected to be structurally-chronic and structurally-transient poor. This underlines the importance of asset formation for long-term poverty reduction strategies. Further refinements are possible with longitudinal data and information about future states of nature.
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