The nexus between poverty and deprivation in Vietnam

Renuka Mahadevan and Viet-Ngu Hoang

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2016, vol. 38, issue 2, 290-303

Abstract: Unlike previous studies’ finding on western and developed economies, income is a significant determinant of multidimensional deprivation in Vietnam. This first study on a developing country also incorporates food security in a latent class framework to compute a new multidimensional deprivation index. It was found that chronic poverty and not transient poverty has a detrimental effect on multidimensional deprivation and thus current poverty alleviation programs should potentially be tailored according to these poverty types to effectively combat multidimensional deprivation. The finding that 20% of non-poor are most deprived with 85% of this group living in urban Vietnam also points to the need for a new form of targeted policy.

Keywords: Income poverty; Chronic poverty; Transient poverty; Latent class model; Multidimensional deprivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 J15 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2016.01.001

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