TY - JOUR
T1 - Vietnam’s Evolving Poverty Index Map
T2 - Patterns and Implications for Policy
AU - Lanjouw, Peter
AU - Marra, Marleen
AU - Nguyen, Cuong
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper uses small area estimation techniques to estimate the poverty indexes of Vietnam’s provinces and districts in 2009. We find that poverty rates have become more spatially concentrated over time, which is consistent with widely observed growth processes linked to agglomeration. We hypothesize that this makes geographic targeting of the poor more relevant as a means to re-balance growing welfare disparities between geographic areas. Simulations indicate that in both 1999 and 2009 geographic targeting for poverty alleviation improves upon a uniform lump-sum transfer and this becomes more evident the more spatially disaggregated the target populations.
AB - This paper uses small area estimation techniques to estimate the poverty indexes of Vietnam’s provinces and districts in 2009. We find that poverty rates have become more spatially concentrated over time, which is consistent with widely observed growth processes linked to agglomeration. We hypothesize that this makes geographic targeting of the poor more relevant as a means to re-balance growing welfare disparities between geographic areas. Simulations indicate that in both 1999 and 2009 geographic targeting for poverty alleviation improves upon a uniform lump-sum transfer and this becomes more evident the more spatially disaggregated the target populations.
KW - Developing countries
KW - Inequality
KW - Poverty indexes
KW - Small area estimation
KW - Targeting efficiency
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U2 - 10.1007/s11205-016-1355-9
DO - 10.1007/s11205-016-1355-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84966621787
VL - 133
SP - 93
EP - 118
JO - Social Indicators Research
JF - Social Indicators Research
SN - 0303-8300
IS - 1
ER -