Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …Using household data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) and the sector-specific growth and … poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of …

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 …

auf einem Multimethodenansatz werden jeweils zwei Fallstudien in Vietnam und auf den Philippinen aus beiden Perspektiven … Wirtschaftswachstum und Armutsreduktion diskutiert. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Darstellung von Public Private Partnerships …. Keine Fallstudie liefert einen direkten langfristigen Beitrag zur Armutsreduktion, aber sie tragen zum Wirtschaftswachstum …

Vietnam gehört zu den ärmsten Ländern der Erde. Nach Angaben des Weltentwicklungsberichts 1997 betrug das Pro …-Kopf-Einkommen des Landes im Jahre 1995 nur etwa 240 US-Dollar (US-$).1 Der prozentuale Anteil der von Armut betroffenen Menschen wird … Zentralverwaltung ausgerichtete Wirtschaftssystem in eine marktorientierte Wirtschaftsordnung zu transformieren. In Vietnam setzte dies …

. This justifies a micro-credit program, which is operated by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to provide the poor with … preferential credit. This paper examines poverty targeting and impact of the micro-credit program. It is found that the program is … on poverty reduction of the participants. This positive impact is found for all the three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …

a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education …