23% of the population had access to piped water in 2006. This study measures the effect of piped water on household … welfare using difference-in-differences estimators and panel data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys. Findings … show that the effect of piped water on household income and labor supply is positive but small and not statistically …

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 …

Although there is no doubt that social security can help poverty reduction, their effect on poverty reduction can vary … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … expenditure than social allowances. Pensions and social allowances reduce poverty of the recipients as well as the whole …

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household … propose a simple estimate method to estimate the effect of urbanization on rural poverty. It is found that a one percent … poverty rate by 0.17 percentage point. However, we find an effect of urbanization on consumption of unhealthy goods …

redistribution are necessary for poverty reduction. For growth theoreticians, economic growth must be pursued while for political … the effect of these variables using two recent national household survey data sets collected by the National Bureau of … statistics in 1996 and 2004 upon which we applied three commonly used poverty indices(FGT) and the Shapely decomposition …

poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …This study examines household characteristics and personal characteristics of the household head as the determinants of …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and …

This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the …. The results also indicate that richer households are more affected by remittances. The poverty headcount and poverty gap … are reduced in presence of remittance while the severity of poverty is worsened. …

This paper investigates the impact of access to formal credit on household poverty in Mekong Delta (MD) – Vietnam. The … analysis is based on some indicators of household poverty such as households’ total assets, educational costs, healthcare costs …-borrowers. The results show that access to formal credit is likely to reduce poverty levels among rural households in Mekong Delta. …