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  • Title: An asset-based approach to vulnerability: the case of small-scale fishing areas in Cameroon and Nigeria.
    Author: Chiwaula LS, Witt R, Waibel H.
    Journal: J Dev Stud; 2011; 47(2):338-53. PubMed ID: 21506304.
    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.
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