pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …

. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … estimates, which even fall within one standard error of the true poverty rates in many cases. Further adding geospatial …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …

the share of paid employees, and a rise in some poverty indicators; all these effects were reversed by the end of the …