This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …

This study presents risk assessment of natural disasters in the poor provinces in Northern Mountain of Vietnam. We …, and flash flood are seen as the most common extreme weather events that have threatened public infrastructure, household … heavy rain, flood and flash flood results in severe damages to local infrastructure, especially traffic roads and irrigation …

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. …

communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period …This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …

Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …

This paper examines the effects of poverty and schooling returns on child labour in Vietnam using household-level data … from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS) for 1997-98. I find that poverty is a robust determinant of child labour in … Vietnam. Being above the poverty line reduces child work by as much as 146 hours a year. There is little additional effect of …

This paper examines the current distribution of the agricultural land, the issues causing landlessness in Vietnam …, assesses present governmental policies and methods and presents key options. The paper relies on the Vietnam Living Household …

This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic … third of the income gap between the majority and all other ethnic minorities groups. Importantly, it implies that poverty of …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases …, agricultural land helps poverty reduction. Due to agricultural land, the headcount of poverty for land holders is reduced by around … 1.2 percentage points. Agricultural land also decreases the poverty-gap and poverty-severity indexes for the land …