Ranks and scores: measuring relative socio-economic vulnerability in the Philippines
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2011-04
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The concept of vulnerability is contentious, and its methods of measurement are many. This paper adapts 'hazards-of-place' 'hazards-of-place' approach developed Cutter Cutter (1996) in determining This vulnerability. This approach presupposes that vulnerability is a product of social However, biophysical vulnerabilities. However, we examine only socio- economic The in this study. The integration with biophysical vulnerability Although left for future research. Although in economics, the household is the common unit of analysis, the scale employed here is larger, at the regional sub-national scale, thus taking into account the characteristics Using a place that contribute to vulnerability. Using principal components analysis, this paper Philippines, to quantify the relative socio-economic vulnerability of the Philippines, For assigning scores that measure each administrative region's socio-economic vulnerability. For policy purposes, the relative vulnerabilities found here can be used to guide targeted intervention of the most vulnerable locations.
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vulnerability, resilience, inequality, regions of the Philippines, shocks