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 …

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes …. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty …