This paper analyzes the role of women's work in reducing poverty in Vietnam during the period of 2004-08. We use t … research has used expenditure per equivalence of scale before. The determinants of poverty rates in Vietnam are also considered …. The result shows that women's work itself is not enough to reduce poverty in Vietnam. The problem of being poor mainly …

. 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 …

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 …

Vietnam has one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world in recent years. However, ethnic groups in this … country may not equally share the benefit of this wealth increase. Using data from household surveys in Vietnam, this paper … offers an analysis of the welfare outcomes between ethnic groups in poverty, education, labor market participation, labor …

, relatively large gains accrue to rural households, where poverty is most pervasive in Vietnam …Analysing Vietnam's rice export policy and recent export ban in the context of rising food prices, this study combines …

Vietnam to illustrate a method for generating disaggregated poverty maps. First, the relationship between poverty and …Previous research shows that geographic targeting in poverty programs is not accurate unless the geographic units are … small. Household surveys, however, can rarely estimate poverty rates for more than 5--10 regions. This study uses data from …

Purpose: The authors estimate the reduction of electricity poverty in Vietnam. The essential argument is that human … kWh/month. Today there is electricity for all in Vietnam, but electricity bills weigh more and more in the budget of … households. Practical implications: The subjective energy poverty measure allows better international statistics: unlike poverty …