Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis
Published By: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Published Date: July, 01 , 2016The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. The strategy was to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a given time horizon, It can be used the estimated dynamics to assess the short, medium and long-run vulnerability.
Author(s): Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun | Posted on: Jul 19, 2016 | Views() | Download (196)