With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural … hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …

This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … drought hazards, the study shows: (i) at the district level, there are hotspots of high poverty and environmental risks; (ii …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its … sources, some of which have rarely been used. The study finds that Vietnam has significantly increased school enrollment at …

latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues … attendance on women's labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

examines the impacts-half a century later-of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …