An asset-based approach to vulnerability

The case of small-scale fishing areas in Cameroon and Nigeria

verfasst von

Levison S. Chiwaula, Rudolf Witt, Hermann Waibel

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Entwicklungs- und Agrarökonomik

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Development Studies

Band

47

Seiten

338-353

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0022-0388

Publikationsdatum

02.2011

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Entwicklung

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 1 – Keine Armut

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1080/00220381003599410 (Zugang: Geschlossen)