Pro-Poor Growth (PPG) is the vision of combining high growth rates with poverty reduction. Due to the myriad of … possible determinants of growth and poverty a unique theoretical model for guiding empirical work on PPG is absent, though … able to ascertain a prioritization of all used determinants of poverty, growth and of PPG of our large set of explanatory …

The UN Millennium Development Goals have recognized poverty reduction as the main goal of global development policy. A … comprehensive framework to evaluate the effectiveness of single policy measures and policy packages with respect to poverty …. Using data for the 61 Vietnamese provinces we are able to ascertain the most important determinants of poverty from a large …

This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from … 1990 to 2018. The study was motivated by the need to establish if burgeoning foreign capital inflows in Vietnam can support … the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and external debt were used as proxies for foreign capital …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly …