Well begun but not yet done : : poverty reduction and the emerging challenges in Vietnam / / Valerie Kozel, editor

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : World Bank Group, , [2014]; 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 238 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 305.56909597
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - Vietnam; Poverty - Government policy - Vietnam; Economic assistance, Domestic - Vietnam
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam Economic conditions 1975-; Vietnam Social policy
• Persona (resp. second.): KozelValerie <1952->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Improved systems for monitoring poverty; Updating the GSO-WB poverty monitoring system; Figures; O.1 Economic growth and poverty reduction in Vietnam: Two decades of progress, 1993-2008; Revisiting the facts about poverty and the poor; Tables; O.1 New poverty estimates for Vietnam, by region and urban or rural areas, 2010; Emerging challenges: Changing spatial patterns of poverty and rising inequality; Maps; O.1 Poverty rates in Vietnam, by region, 1999 and 2009 ; O.2 Poverty rates in Vietnam, by ethnicity, 2009Emerging 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; 1.1 Growth and poverty reduction in Vietnam, 1993-2008; Vietnam's remarkable progress in reducing poverty; Measuring progress using Vietnamese and international poverty lines; Boxes; 1.1 How does Vietnam monitor progress at reducing poverty? ; 1.2 Progress at reducing poverty in Vietnam according to GSO-WB and MOLISA monitoring systems, 1993-20111.1 Number of poor people in Vietnam, 1993-2008; 1.2 Progress at reducing the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty in Vietnam, 1993-2010; 1.3 Improvements in non-income dimensions of poverty in Vietnam, 1993-2010; 1.4 Contribution of HDI components to HDI growth in Vietnam, 1992-2008; 1.3 National poverty lines and average per capita consumption in developing and transition countries; 1.5 Vulnerability to poverty in Vietnam, 2004, 2006, and 2008 ; 1.4 Average annual rates of real growth in per capita expenditures among the Kinh and Hoa majority and ethnic minorities in Vietnam, by region, 1998-20101.5 Poverty rates and changing composition of the poor among the Kinh and Hoa majority and ethnic minorities in Vietnam, 1993-2010; 1.6 Growth in income per capita in Vietnam, by income group, 2004-10; 1.7 Ratio of ethnic minority to Kinh majority enrollment rates in public schools in Vietnam, by level of education, and 2010; 1.8 Out-of-pocket spending per student in Vietnam, by education and expenditure quintile, 2004 ; Overview of the book: Addressing Vietnam's old and new poverty reduction challengesAnnex 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; 2.1 Do India's new official poverty lines measure up?; Capturing different dimensions of poverty; Updating methods for measuring poverty; 2.2 How is poverty measured?; B2.2.1 Conventional poverty measurement methodology; The VHLSS: Improved and shortened in 2010; 2.3 How to value housing services in the VHLSS ; 2.1 Comprehensive consumption aggregates for the VHLSS, 2004-10
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 s
• Altri titoli varianti: Poverty reduction and the emerging challenges in Vietnam
• Titolo autorizzato: Well begun but not yet done
• ISBN: 9780464800061; 1-4648-0007-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787171103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Equity and development series.; World Bank e-Library.