Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … considered-including asking about consumption in one line (the existing practice in Vietnam) or asking each individual about … limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

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 …