Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam

This paper provides an overview of poverty measurement issues in Vietnam for the non-specialist. Vietnam has two main approaches to measuring poverty. An income-based approach is used by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs to genera...

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Main Authors:	Demombynes, Gabriel, Hoang Vu, Linh
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ANTI-POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM CALORIC REQUIREMENTS CASH EXPENDITURE CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION BASKET CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING COST OF FOOD DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT GOALS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC LITERATURE ELIGIBILITY EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FOOD BASKET FOOD EXPENDITURE FOOD NEEDS FOOD POVERTY FOOD POVERTY LINE FOOD PRICES FOOD SHARE GDP GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH ELASTICITY HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH CARE HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES MEASURING POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NUTRITION POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY GAP POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATES POVERTY INDEX POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS POVERTY STATISTICS POVERTY THRESHOLD REGIONAL COST REGIONAL COST OF LIVING RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY LINES SCHOOLING SOCIAL PROGRAMS SQUARED POVERTY GAP STANDARD OF LIVING TARGETING URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY VILLAGE LEVEL WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE LEVEL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24143580/demystifying-poverty-measurement-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21691

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Summary:	This paper provides an overview of poverty measurement issues in Vietnam for the non-specialist. Vietnam has two main approaches to measuring poverty. An income-based approach is used by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs to generate a classification used for determining anti-poverty program eligibility as well as poverty monitoring over the short term. A separate consumption-based approach has been used by the General Statistics Office and the World Bank (GSO-WB), principally to examine poverty changes over the longer run. These national poverty lines are distinct from the $1.25-a-day and $2-a-day international poverty lines. Vietnam s GSO-WB national poverty line is similar in purchasing power parity terms to that of other countries with similar levels of development. Simple projections of poverty rates through 2020 imply that the GSO-WB poverty rate will fall from a 2012 level of 17.2 percent to below 10 percent by 2020, and that over a third of ethnic minorities will still be poor despite large poverty reduction gains.

Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam

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