Are Fishers Poor or Vulnerable? Assessing Economic Vulnerability in Small-Scale Fishing Communities
构建了一个经济脆弱性指数，结合收入贫困指标，分析刚果偏远渔农社区的脆弱性与长期贫困，发现全职渔民脆弱性高，流动性是加剧因素，且高收入家庭也可能高度脆弱。
Abstract An index of economic vulnerability is developed and used with a more conventional measure of income poverty to explore vulnerability and chronic poverty in isolated rural communities. The method is applied to data from remote rural fishing–farming communities in Congo. The analysis highlights the high vulnerability of full-time fisherfolk and identifies mobility as a key factor increasing vulnerability. In line with other recent economic research, our work also shows that households can remain highly vulnerable even when their incomes lie well above the average local income. These different results are consistent with the more specialised literature on small-scale fisheries, confirming the robustness of the analysis proposed in this paper.