This is a draft edition of the Poverty Environment Nexus (PEN) report for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The purpose of … unsolved issues faced by the first phase and within the existing PEN literature on Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. Since the …

public expenditure has made to poverty reduction, and growth in Vietnam in recent years, and, identifies priorities and …

public expenditure has made to poverty reduction, and growth in Vietnam in recent years, and, identifies priorities and …

Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country's broad … progress too. This report analyzes recent trends in poverty and shared prosperity. It presents the findings of the 2016 Vietnam … organized into two main sections. The first section reviews Vietnam's progress in reducing poverty and promoting share …

Progress in Vietnam has been substantial when other dimensions of poverty, apart from expenditures, are considered. The … broader Vietnam Development Goals (VDGs), which are a localized version of the Millennium Development Goals, show a consistent … gained more than others, Vietnam continues to reduce poverty considerably faster than other countries at a similar …

Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between … administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for …

previous reports and aims to do three things. First, it proposes revisions to Vietnam's poverty monitoring system - via better … in present-day Vietnam. Second, it revisits the stylized facts about deprivation and poverty in Vietnam, and develops an … updated profile of poverty using data from the 2010 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) and new qualitative …

Vietnam s HIV epidemic is concentrated, both in specific behavioral sub-populations and geographic regions. The key … populations at higher risk for HIV infection in Vietnam are female sex workers (FSW) and their clients; injecting drug users (IDU …); and men who have sex with men (MSM). Vietnam identified harm reduction interventions for IDU and FSW as a key component of …

As it transitions to Middle-Income Country (MIC) status, Vietnam is considering whether its social protection system is … global markets, industrialization, urbanization and other economic and societal shifts. Vietnam's social safety net … to assess the system of social safety net programs currently in place in Vietnam and to gauge how well it covers the poor …