Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable … pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly …

poverty reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and …

poverty reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and …

Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at the country-level, where even … countries, measured poverty rates have remained virtually unchanged over the last decade, raising concerns over the …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …