Vulnerability in developing countries : an introduction / Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray -- Measuring vulnerability and poverty : estimates for rural India / Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai -- Vulnerability, trust and micro-credit : the case of China's rural poor / Calum G. Turvey and Rong Kong -- Assets, poverty dynamics and vulnerability : evidence from rural Tajikistan / Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete -- Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe / Kate Bird and Martin Prowse -- Vulnerability dynamics and HIV risk in the semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh / B. Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Ma. Cynthia Serquiña Bantilan and Devanathan Parthasarathy -- Vulnerability to hunger : responding to food crises in fragile states / Colin Andrews and Margarita Flores -- Vulnerability of small-island economies : the impact of "natural" disasters in the Caribbean / Martin Philipp Heger, Alex Julca and Oliver Paddison -- Natural disasters and remittances : poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS / Marlene Attzs -- Growth-oriented macroeconomic policies for small-island economies : lessons from Singapore / Anis Chowdhury -- Vulnerability in developing countries : implications and conclusions / Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray.