The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting
The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted antipoverty programs. First, they estimate per capita expenditure as a function of selected h...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/04/1764561/spatial-distribution-poverty-vietnam-potential-targeting http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14811 |
| Summary: | The authors combine household survey and
census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam
and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted
antipoverty programs. First, they estimate per capita
expenditure as a function of selected household and
geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living
Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with data
on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census
to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. The
results show that rural poverty is concentrated in 10
provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 provinces in the
Central Highlands, and 2 provinces in the Central Coast. The
authors use Receiver Operating Characteristics curves to
evaluate the effectiveness of geographic targeting. The
results show that the existing poor communes system excludes
large numbers of poor people, but there is potential for
sharpening poverty targeting using a small number of
easy-to-follow measure household characteristics. |
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