dramatic decline in poverty. Over the same period, child malnutrition rates in Vietnam, as measured by low height for age in …Vietnam's rapid economic growth in the 1990s greatly increased the incomes of Vietnamese households, which led to a … of high economic growth suggests that the nutritional improvements are due to higher household incomes. The authors …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …

different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches …

dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because of … measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters recovered from … this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel data. …

with respect to data collection on assets at both the household and individual levels, and shows how various questions on … individually owned assets can be incorporated with a minimum of effort and cost into existing multi-topic household surveys, using … examples of three Living Standard Measurement Study surveys: the 1998-99 Ghana survey, the 2000 Guatemala survey, and the 1997 …

ethnic groups in Vietnam. Using data from the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey and 1999 Census, they show that Kinh and … Hoa ("majority") households have substantially higher living standards than "minority" households from Vietnam's other 52 …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade reforms on household welfare. In particular, it studies the importance of each … improvement in welfare as evidenced by the drastic decline in poverty. Using analytical and empirical methods, the author examines …

household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …

household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers … rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …