title: An asset-based approach to vulnerability: the case of small-scale fishing areas in Cameroon and Nigeria.
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.
authors.affiliation: Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Levison S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Chiwaula
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Witt
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Waibel
mesh_terms: D002163:Cameroon / Q000208:ethnology; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D005398:Fisheries / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D019649:Food Industry / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009549:Nigeria / Q000208:ethnology; D011203:Poverty / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D012423:Rural Health / Q000266:history; D012424:Rural Population / Q000266:history; D012923:Social Class / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors / Q000266:history; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000208:ethnology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology