This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but the pace of poverty reduction has been least pronounced in those localities with high initial...
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2013/02/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6355
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2013/02/01
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Vietnam's evolving poverty map : patterns and implications for policy
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international food policy research institute