Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation

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dc.creatorDang, Hai-Anh H.
dc.creatorDhongde, Shatakshee
dc.creatorDo, Minh
dc.creatorNguyen, Cuong Viet
dc.creatorPimhidzai, Obert
dc.date2025-02-20T17:08:03Z
dc.date2025-02-20T17:08:03Z
dc.date2025-02-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:32:06Z
dc.descriptionViet Nam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country’s economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new, extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys spanning 2002 to 2020 and other data sources, this paper finds within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality. Furthermore, this inequality gap has been rising over time. Despite the country’s fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly segregated in certain provinces, particularly those with a larger ethnic minority population. The analysis finds a beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on inequality levels. It also finds that greater inequality has had negative effects on economic growth but varying negative effects on different poverty indicators. The paper provides supportive evidence of the beneficial impact of economic transitions from agriculture to non-agriculture. The results suggest that policy makers in Viet Nam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality to attain sustainable economic development.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099908202182592359/IDU12961e752165591458f1a01510cf5982fb3d9
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42840
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-11067
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/405526
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; 11067
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectPRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subjectCONVERGENCE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectVIET NAM
dc.titleRapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation
dc.titleWill Viet Nam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
dc.typeWorking Paper

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