The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the … discussed, drawing on both quantitative analysis and the large number of qualitative studies on ethnic issues in Vietnam …

This paper provides a descriptive and multivariate analysis of poverty dynamics in Vietnam using panel data from the … Vietnam household living standards surveys of 2002, 2004, and 2006. Transition matrices and contour plots confirm that while …, and residence in northern Vietnam, have important roles in trapping households in poverty. Simultaneous quintile …