Vietnam’s Evolving Poverty Index Map: Patterns and Implications for Policy

Peter Lanjouw, Marleen Marra and Cuong Nguyen

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, vol. 133, issue 1, No 6, 93-118

Abstract: Abstract This paper uses small area estimation techniques to estimate the poverty indexes of Vietnam’s provinces and districts in 2009. We find that poverty rates have become more spatially concentrated over time, which is consistent with widely observed growth processes linked to agglomeration. We hypothesize that this makes geographic targeting of the poor more relevant as a means to re-balance growing welfare disparities between geographic areas. Simulations indicate that in both 1999 and 2009 geographic targeting for poverty alleviation improves upon a uniform lump-sum transfer and this becomes more evident the more spatially disaggregated the target populations.

Keywords: Poverty indexes; Inequality; Small area estimation; Targeting efficiency; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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