afd-development-contexts/notes/vietnam/2208141732_vietnam-key-notes.md

Research Vietnam

• focus on:
  • income inequality, based on bottom 40%, Gini coefficient, other inequality measures
  • focus on: Vietnam varation in incidence of catastrophic weather events (e.g. floodings) and unequal impact of these events on households

Literature unsorted

[ ] WorldBank2012

• marked reduction in absolute poverty in country
  • rate of decline slowed somewhat since mid-2000s [@WorldBank2012; @VASS2006; @VASS2011]
  • some decline can be directly attributed to liberalization of markets instead of growth more generally [@McCaig2011; @Benjamin2004; @Edmonds2006]
• inequality in Vietnam is largely intersectional between ethnicity, regional situation, and a strong rural-urban divide
  • persistent poverty severe among ethnic minorities [@Baulch2012]
• focuses on consumption inequality

Descriptive statistical analysis ideas

• real GDP per capita growth rate (see @Benjamin2017, fn.1)
• distribution of GDP per capita (along ethnicity, rural, regional)
• amount of ethnic minority in region (Ninh Binh)
  • overall (wikipedia ~98% Kinh)
  • versus especially rural

Questions

• Should I work out a more explicit distinctive line between studies looking at welfare (consumption) and earnings (income) inequality, e.g. in an additional paragraph?
  • since income inequality outcomes tend to be larger than consumption inequalities in V