Publication: Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam
Date
2015-02
ISSN
Published
2015-02
Author(s)
Demombynes, Gabriel
Hoang Vu, Linh
Abstract
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.
Citation
“Demombynes, Gabriel; Hoang Vu, Linh. 2015. Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam. Vietnam development economics discussion
paper;no. 1. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21691 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”