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An Asset-Based Approach to Vulnerability: The Case of Small-Scale Fishing Areas in Cameroon and Nigeria.
- Source :
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Journal of Development Studies . Feb2011, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p338-353. 16p. 4 Charts, 2 Graphs, 1 Map. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FISHING villages
*SMALL-scale fisheries
*POVERTY
*HOUSEHOLDS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220388
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Development Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 57657707
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220381003599410