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.
MeSH terms
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Cameroon / ethnology
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Employment / economics
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Employment / history
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Employment / psychology
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Evidence-Based Practice / economics
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Evidence-Based Practice / education
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Evidence-Based Practice / history
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Fisheries* / economics
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Fisheries* / history
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Food Industry / economics
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Food Industry / education
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Food Industry / history
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Food Supply* / economics
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Food Supply* / history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Nigeria / ethnology
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Poverty* / economics
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Poverty* / ethnology
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Poverty* / history
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Poverty* / legislation & jurisprudence
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Poverty* / psychology
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Rural Health* / history
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Rural Population / history
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Social Class / history
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Socioeconomic Factors* / history
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Vulnerable Populations* / ethnology
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Vulnerable Populations* / legislation & jurisprudence
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Vulnerable Populations* / psychology