Mohammad Hakim Haider
The present study is devoted to identify the factors and forces
that are responsible for keeping some households in poverty whereas
enables other to escape low level of living and poverty in the country.
In fact, the information on the probable causes of poverty and
vulnerability is crucial and a pre-requisite to design the most
appropriate strategy for mitigating poverty and vulnerability of the
households. Policies need to be initiated to overcome the potential
causes of trapping people in poverty whereas initiatives also need to
be undertaken to capacitate people to escape poverty or enable them
to keep above the poverty threshold level. Such factors and forces are
likely to be specific characteristics of the households themselves and
specific attributes associated with the overall socio-economic
environment where household happens to be located. In fact such
environmental attributes tend to affect households differently through
exchange entitlements of the household endowments in the market
(Sen, 1971). Therefore, we propose to test the role of both household
specific and its environmental related factors as potential
determinants of household poverty and vulnerability in Afghanistan.