Well Begun but Not Yet Done : Progress and Emerging Challenges for Poverty Reduction in Vietnam.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Improved systems for monitoring poverty -- Updating the GSO-WB poverty monitoring system -- Revisiting the facts about poverty and the poor -- Emerging challenges: Changing spatial patterns of poverty and rising inequality -- Emerging policy and program implications -- Notes -- References -- 1 Vietnam's Growth and Poverty Reduction Record: Remarkable Success, but Big Remaining Challenges -- Rapid growth and structural transformation of the Vietnamese economy -- Vietnam's remarkable progress in reducing poverty -- Measuring progress using Vietnamese and international poverty lines -- Overview of the book: Addressing Vietnam's old and new poverty reduction challenges -- Annex 1A New qualitative research carried out for the 2012 Vietnam poverty assessment -- Notes -- References -- 2 Updating Vietnam's Poverty Monitoring System -- Rethinking poverty in Vietnam -- Capturing different dimensions of poverty -- Updating methods for measuring poverty -- The VHLSS: Improved and shortened in 2010 -- New poverty estimates for 2010: GSO-WB and official poverty methodologies -- Annex 2A Statistical tables -- Annex 2B Spatial cost-of-living estimates for 2010 VHLSS -- Annex 2C Subjective poverty in Vietnam -- Notes -- References -- 3 Poverty Profile: Establishing the Facts about Poverty in Vietnam -- Stylized facts about poverty in Vietnam -- Spatial distribution of poverty -- Sector of employment -- Poverty and ethnic identity -- Poverty and educational attainment -- Land distribution -- Housing and local infrastructure -- Urban poverty -- Demographic Factors -- Aging and economies of scale in consumption -- Childhood poverty and long-term development -- Vulnerability to weather shocks.

Coverage of poverty reduction and social protection programs -- Annex 3A Overview of Vietnam's eight economic regions -- Notes -- References -- 4 Spatial Dimensions of Poverty: 1999 and 2009 Poverty Maps -- 2009 poverty maps -- Inequality -- Relationship between poverty and other characteristics -- Inequality and wealth maps -- Evolution of spatial poverty between 1999 and 2009 -- Contribution of the rural nonfarm sector to poverty reduction -- Policy design and evaluation -- Annex 4A Spatial distribution of poverty and the gains from spatial targeting -- Transfer scheme -- Budget and poverty lines -- Simulating the impact of uniform transfers -- Simulating the impact of "optimal" geographic targeting -- Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Reducing Poverty among Ethnic Minorities -- Poverty reduction across regions and among and within minority ethnic groups -- Disparities in access to education, infrastructure, and public services -- Focusing on the experiences of successful ethnic households: Lessons for future policies and programs -- Steps for development in ethnic minority communities -- Narratives of ethnic minority livelihoods, cultures, and gender relations -- Conclusions: Emerging policy recommendations for reducing ethnic minority poverty -- Notes -- References -- 6 Is Inequality Rising in Vietnam? Perceptions and Empirics -- Why are we concerned about inequality? -- Is inequality of outcomes rising? -- Why has income inequality increased? -- Inequalities in opportunities and income differences across generations -- Inequalities in connections, voice, and influence -- Emerging policy recommendations -- Annex 6A Why do "perceptions of inequality" diverge from empirical measures of inequality? -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Back Cover.

This book presents the key findings from a new poverty assessment for Vietnam, led jointly by the World Bank and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). It takes a fresh look at the lives of poor men, women, and children, and explores the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. The book aims to do three things. First, it proposes revisions to Vietnam’s poverty monitoring system—via better data, updated welfare aggregates, and new poverty lines—to bring these more in line with economic and social conditions in present-day Vietnam. Second, it revisits the stylized facts about deprivation and poverty in Vietnam, and develops an updated profile and diagnostic of poverty using data from the most recent Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS 2010), complemented by new qualitative field studies. Third, it aims to forge a consensus around some of the key challenges for reducing extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity over the next decade, including changing regional patterns of poverty and wealth, high and persistent poverty among ethnic minorities, substantial and increasing vulnerability, and rising inequality in outcomes and opportunities.

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