welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …

, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the … poverty reduction. People's living standards have improved significantly, and the country's socio-economic achievements are …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates … experienced by higher-income households. Additionally, the estimates point to moderate increases in both the headcount poverty … rate and the extent of poverty, as measured by the poverty gap. Automatic stabilizers had a limited effect in cushioning …

left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate … crisis leaving poverty rates below the (no crises) baseline. -- economic crisis ; growth ; poverty ; Vietnam …Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear …

poverty reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of … Mozambican growth to reduce poverty. -- poverty ; multipliers ; structural path analysis ; Mozambique ; Vietnam …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this …

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 …

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes …. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty …