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 …

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 …

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 …

left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate …Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable …