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 … remittance inflow projections by Asian Development Bank (ADB), this study first estimated the COVID-19 pandemic on income and …

/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 …