Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities … their access to crucial basic infrastructure and public services, including transportation, education, healthcare … aims to promote production, increase access to basic facilities, improve education, and raise awareness for better living …

We evaluate the impact on household income of Viet Nam's national target programme to build a new countryside for the … own strengths and weaknesses: an income growth model (ordinary least squares), differences-in-differences, and propensity … in household income of between 16 and 28 per cent, depending on the evaluation method used. As the comparison communes …

/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other … 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. …

of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and … having an accumulation of disadvantages in location, demographic structure, education, and labour market outcomes. The …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … to social policy. But given the strong correlation in Brazil between ethnicity and income, social protection policies …

, 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 … poverty rate and fully reversed income losses for the poorest income quartile. …

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 …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first …-order dominance approach. It examines five welfare indicators: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy. While the analysis …