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 …With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …

-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each $1 of global flood asset loss is equivalent to a … reduce flood losses in each country. It shows that considering asset losses is insufficient to assess disaster risk …

-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as … households, suggesting that different mechanisms?such as land scarcity?are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …

working-age adults (particularly males), dependency ratios, and poverty incidence than their counterparts in non … outside earnings. Those left behind face a far greater likelihood of extreme poverty than their counterparts in less …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …-being effects for the affected households. It is estimated that households? losses due to the April 2018 flood reached more than US … households were less likely to recover from flood exposure. The report finds that access to finance play an important role in …

concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty … who were affected and those who were not affected by the flood. (2) Poorer households lost less than their richer … of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4 …

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 … in a survey. Although limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the …

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 … developed data on air pollution, tree cover loss, land degradation, slope, rainfall and temperature variability, and flood and …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis … are provided using panel data from the United States (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) and Vietnam (Vietnam Household …

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …