Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam

Demombynes, Gabriel ; Hoang Vu, Linh

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: ANTI-POVERTY;    ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM;    CALORIC REQUIREMENTS;    CASH EXPENDITURE;    CHANGES IN POVERTY;   

RP-ID  :  94939

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper provides an overview ofpoverty measurement issues in Vietnam for thenon-specialist. Vietnam has two main approaches to measuringpoverty. An income-based approach is used by the Ministry ofLabor, Invalids, and Social Affairs to generate aclassification used for determining anti-poverty programeligibility as well as poverty monitoring over the shortterm. A separate consumption-based approach has been used bythe 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 inpurchasing power parity terms to that of other countrieswith similar levels of development. Simple projections ofpoverty rates through 2020 imply that the GSO-WB povertyrate will fall from a 2012 level of 17.2 percent to below 10percent by 2020, and that over a third of ethnic minoritieswill still be poor despite large poverty reduction gains.