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The Economic vulnerability index is one of the criteria used by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, [1] an advisory body to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, [2] in the identification of Least Developed Countries. [3] It is a composite of eight indicators: [4] Population size; Remoteness; Merchandise export ...
In the 1970s the concept of vulnerability was introduced within the discourse on natural hazards and disaster by O'Keefe, Westgate, and Wisner. [11] In "taking the naturalness out of natural disasters" these authors insisted that socio-economic conditions are the causes for natural disasters.
A vulnerability index is a measure of the exposure of a population to some hazard. Typically, the index is a composite of multiple quantitative indicators that via some formula, delivers a single numerical result. Through such an index "diverse issues can be combined into a standardised framework...making comparisons possible". [1]
Human Poverty Index – Former indication of the poverty of community in a country; List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita; More developed country – Country with a developed economy and infrastructure (MDC), opposite of LDCs; Newly industrialized country – Socioeconomic classification; Right to development – Human right
The main distinction is between biophysical and social (or socioeconomic) vulnerability: Biophysical vulnerability is about the effects of physical climate hazards such as a heat wave or heavy rain events; Social vulnerability considers the many political, institutional, economic and social structures that form the context for climate change [15]
It is then regarded as the combined result of personal risk factors (age, gender, race); macro-societal changes (demographic, economic and labor market developments, technological innovation, the evolution of social norms); government legislation and social policy; and the actual behavior of businesses, administrative organisations and fellow ...
A deprivation index or poverty index (or index of deprivation or index of poverty) is a data set to measure relative deprivation (a measure of poverty) of small areas. Such indices are used in spatial epidemiology to identify socio-economic confounding .
Socio-Economic Status of Pakistanis, source: [24] "Vulnerability" in this case stands for the underlying susceptibility of economically deprived people to fall into poverty as a result of exogenous random shocks. Vulnerable households are generally found to have low expenditure levels.