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| Minot, Nicholas; Baulch, Bob; Epprecht, Michael. |
| Information on the spatial distribution of poverty is particularly useful in designing geographically targeted programs to address regional disparities—a matter of high priority for many countries. Until recently, most developing countries were forced to design these programs based on rough indicators of poverty or on the results of household budget surveys, which typically generate poverty estimates for a limited number of regions. In the late 1990s, a new approach was developed combining census data and household budget survey results to generate poverty estimates for small areas such as districts, allowing the construction of “poverty maps.” A1998 IFPRI study in Vietnam was one of the first to experiment with this approach. A similar method was... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Vietnam; Equality; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37882 |
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