Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent … and poverty alleviation have been maintained at the expense of renewed inflation, larger budget deficits, and currency …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount … during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake … and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of which are modified to allow poverty lines to vary over time and space. The …

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means …

of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus …

greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …

rankings of populations. These approaches are applied to household survey data from Vietnam and Mozambique. …