Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

Albert, Jose Ramon G. Author_Email: jalbert@mail.pids.gov.ph, Elloso, Lilia V. Author_Email: lvelloso@srtc.gov.ph and Ramos, Andrei Philippe Author_Email: andrephilippe.ramos@gmail.com

No DP 2007-16, Discussion Papers from Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Abstract: Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy interventions will have to be developed to minimize the risk households face in becoming income poor, or at least help them in mitigating the impact of their becoming poor.

Keywords: vulnerability; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/dps/pidsdps0716.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_2007-16

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers from Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Aniceto Orbeta ().