Towards a Clearer Understanding of 'Vulnerability' in Relation to Chronic Poverty

CPRC Working Paper No. 24

41 Pages Posted: 18 Apr 2011

Date Written: April 1, 2003

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse how the term 'vulnerability' has been used in the Chronic Poverty Research Centre's (CPRC) initial set of working papers. The intention of this analysis is to show that 'vulnerability' can be utilised in a variety of ways, with different meanings, and different implications. This attempt at unravelling vulnerability within the CPRC literature shows that there could be merit in disaggregating 'vulnerability', and that this could be relevant to the study of chronic poverty.

Keywords: vulnerability, risk

Suggested Citation

Prowse, Martin, Towards a Clearer Understanding of 'Vulnerability' in Relation to Chronic Poverty (April 1, 2003). CPRC Working Paper No. 24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1754445 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1754445

Martin Prowse (Contact Author)

University of Antwerp ( email )

Prinsstraat 13
Antwerp, 2000
Belgium

HOME PAGE: http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=martin.prowse

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