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 …

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 …

Vietnam is implementing a long run reform agenda for the power sector, with the aim of restructuring the sector to … Policy Loans (DPLs). A number of Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) activities will be carried out in support of … Vietnam's power sector reforms and as part of the World Bank's due diligence work for the power sector DPLs. This PSIA focuses …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … considered-including asking about consumption in one line (the existing practice in Vietnam) or asking each individual about … limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …