1The poverty-vulnerability-resilience nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh

We present the first empirical study that tests the nexus among poverty, vulnerability and resilience. Our results suggest that high vulnerability does not necessarily imply low resilience. We also develop a state-and-transition model for assessing socio-economic resilience to natural disasters. The model provides the opportunity to incorporate a broad spectrum of resilience dynamics. 3Abstract Vulnerability and resilience lie at the core of the new paradigm governing natural disaster risk management frameworks. However, empirical understandings of socio-economic resilience and its links with poverty and vulnerability are limited. This paper presents an empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters in a tropical cyclone-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. The results indicate that the cyclone in question had negative impacts on the community, particularly in terms of income, employment and access to clean water and sanitation. Consistent with the findings of the social vulnerabilit