Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases …, agricultural land helps poverty reduction. Due to agricultural land, the headcount of poverty for land holders is reduced by around … 1.2 percentage points. Agricultural land also decreases the poverty-gap and poverty-severity indexes for the land …

implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …

The objective of this paper is to estimate poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam at different levels of aggregation … experienced a noticeable reduction in rural poverty during the period 1999-2006. Some of the largest reductions in poverty are … observed for provinces with poverty rates close to the national average. Also the poorest provinces are experiencing reductions …

inflation, bad debt from commercial banks and the inefficient operation of state-owned companies. The poverty reduction rate has … slowed down and poverty incidence in remote and mountainous areas remains high. Inequality in income and socio …

After a decade implementing the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for the period 2001-2010, Comprehensive Poverty … poverty, rising inequality, and climate changes that can slow down the progress of MDGs. These report documents the successes …

have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …

capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in …, at the least in the short run, do not reduce poverty. They may even lead to an increase in inequality. Overall, the study … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …

Poverty and disability are interrelated, but data that can disentangle to what extent one causes the other and vice … poverty also varies at the district level. And most importantly, the strength of that correlation lessens based on district …, show less of a link between disability and poverty, supporting the hypothesis that improvements in infrastructure and …