Determining Poverty Vulnerabilities in Dhaka City Corporation Area: An Asset-based Fuzzy Logic Analysis. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ullah, Kazi Masel
• Is Part Of: Journal of poverty. Volume 23:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 65
• Page End: 82
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: asset-based approach -- Dhaka city -- fuzzy logic -- poverty vulnerability -- urban poverty; Poverty -- United States -- Periodicals; Poor -- United States -- Periodicals; Public welfare -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2018.1506960
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1087-5549

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article presents a list of vulnerability indicators in context of Dhaka city using asset-based approach and evaluates relative vulnerabilities of households using fuzzy logic. Literature review and stakeholder consultation were made to identify vulnerability indicators; and Cheli and Lemmi's distribution function method was mainly applied for fuzzy poverty analysis. Result shows that 16% of the sample households are highly poor, 54% are poor, 24% are moderately poor, and 6% are nonpoor. The study tried to explain the major characteristics of being highly poor, poor, moderately poor, as well as nonpoor.