FOR 756: Impact of Shocks on the Vulnerability to Poverty: Consequences for Development of Emerging Southeast Asian Economies

虽然贫困经济学在最近几年取得了进展，现在更好地反映了发展中国家贫困现象的真正复杂性，但基于横截面数据的静态贫困衡量方法仍然得到广泛使用，尽管它们在描述穷人的长期福利状况方面作用有限。迄今为止，仍有10多亿人生活在国际贫困线以下，即在任何时候都处于贫困状态，但面临暂时贫困或面临陷入贫困风险的人数要多得多。再加上生态、经济和政治环境的不确定性越来越大，这就要求在风险、冲击和脆弱性的背景下发展动态的贫穷概念。

While the economics of poverty has advanced during recent years and now better captures the true complexity of the poverty phenomena in developing countries, static poverty measures based on cross-sectional data are still in widespread use, in spite of their limited usefulness in describing the long-term welfare situation of the poor. To date, still more than one billion people live below the international poverty line, i.e. are poor at any point in time, but a much larger number of people face temporary poverty or are at risk of falling into poverty. Combined with growing uncertainty in the ecological, economic and political environment, this calls for the development of dynamic concepts of poverty in the context of risks, shocks and vulnerability.