Disability and Poverty in Vietnam

Mont, Daniel; Cuon, Nguyen Viet

doi:10.1093/wber/lhr019

Publication: Disability and Poverty in Vietnam

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Date

2011-05-31

ISSN

1564-698X

Published

2011-05-31

Author(s)

Mont, Daniel

Cuon, Nguyen Viet

Abstract

Disability is significantly correlated with poverty in Vietnam, according to data from the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey, especially when the extra costs of living with a disability are taken into account. This disability-poverty link is also associated with lower educational attainment, an important factor in determining poverty and productive economic activity in general, both for household-based businesses and wage employment. Not taking into account these associations and the extra costs of disability will make some poor disabled people invisible in poverty statistics and impede efforts to reduce poverty.

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“Mont, Daniel; Cuon, Nguyen Viet. 2011. Disability and Poverty in Vietnam. World Bank Economic Review. © World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/a5cc8302-423a-5c2c-b1b6-cecdfe97a9fb License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”