methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya …

to data from rural Kenya shows that in 1994 rural households faced on average a 40 percent chance of becoming poor in the …

incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under …

Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic …

. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …

How does Vietnam's public safety net affect outcomes for the poor? Although social welfare programs in Vietnam are … in the data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey. She looks at the role of location in determining whether the poor …

The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with …

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 …

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …