This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …

Vietnam has achieved high economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades. However the country has … than the rate of increase during the period 2006-2008 (at 17 percent). Poverty rate decreased from 14 percent in 2010 to 11 …

To estimate the poverty rate at the commune level, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs firstly collects … information on households’ income per capita, and compares their income with a defined poverty line. A household is identified as … a poor one if their income per capita is below the poverty line. Then, the poverty rate of a commune is simply the ratio …

This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic … third of the income gap between the majority and all other ethnic minorities groups. Importantly, it implies that poverty of …

from a 2010 Northern Mountain Baseline Survey (NMBS) of the Second Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project and Vietnam …

known about the ultimate impact of informal loans on poverty and inequality. If informal credit is an important means to … decrease poverty, the government may want to reconsider its policy focus. Although it is possible to stimulate the availability …, and subsequently assess its impact on poverty and inequality. By using fixed-effect regressions with instrumental …

Although there is no doubt that social security can help poverty reduction, their effect on poverty reduction can vary … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … expenditure than social allowances. Pensions and social allowances reduce poverty of the recipients as well as the whole …

This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …