Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269349 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P68
Version Description: 
Updated version: January 2015
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
Assessing the vulnerability which is independent of present policy is needed both to identif, the most vulnerable poor countries, and to design criteria for the allocation of international resources. With this regard two kinds of vulnerability and corresponding indices are considered: the structural economic vulnerability (as measured by the UN Economic Vulnerability Index, EVI) and the physical vulnerability to climate change (as measured by the Ferdi PVCCI Index); the former is more likely to be used for the allocation of development assistance, the latter for the allocation of adaptation resources. The two indices and their possible use are compared, while the rationale for their aggregation and for an integrated process of allocation is respectively discussed.Last update : January 2015
JEL: 
F35
Q56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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