The aim of this paper is to inform the reader about the rural households' saving situation in Vietnam and the … behavior. In Vietnam households hold capital through informal means. This means prevents it in many cases from being used …

structural transformation and widespread poverty reduction is the combined result of these large-scale shifts in work and labour …

geared towards poverty reduction is still to be implemented. The government budget also remains problematic, and aid …

This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of …

structural transformation and widespread poverty reduction is the combined result of these large-scale shifts in work and labour …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …

experiences of Mozambique and Vietnam—two countries with similar levels and compositions of economic growth but divergent poverty … Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to poverty …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this …