Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190174 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/127
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which takes into account not only income or consumption of the poor, but also their access to basic needs (education, health, etc.) and resources (credit, social network, etc.). In Viet Nam, since 2016, the Government has adopted the multidimensional approach to thoroughly measure poverty. This paper is an attempt to assess the state and evolution of multidimensional poverty in the rural areas of Viet Nam, using data from the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey 2008-16. Results show remarkable improvement of the living conditions in the rural areas, with a greater pace shown among the ethnic minority groups. However, there need to be more efforts to reduce the gap in poverty headcount ratios among Kinh and non-Kinh groups, households with male and female heads, and among households in different provinces. Some of the main suggestions to reduce multidimensional poverty in Viet Nam is to increase households' access to health care services, education, clean water and hygienic latrines, and to improve the presence of such service providers near the households' locations.
Subjects: 
multidimensional poverty
rural household survey
Viet Nam
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-569-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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