This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty...

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence, of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and...

Kijima and Lanjouw provide estimates of poverty at the regional level in India spanning the 1990s. Such estimates have not been previously available due to concerns regarding noncomparability of the 1993-94 and 1999-2000 National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household survey data. They...