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 paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 … targeting have become more pronounced over time in Vietnam. Although poverty reduction in Vietnam has been impressive, further …. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic …

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam—a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …

Minot and Baulch combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate … selected household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the … results with data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each …