Walle, de van Dominique
The Static and Dynamic Incidence of Vietnam's Public Safety Net Walle, de van Dominique [electronic resource] / Walle, de van Dominique - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2002 - 1 online resource (54 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .
Vietnam's social welfare programs do not adequately protect and promote the poor. Increased spending, with better coverage and targeting, could help poor and vulnerable households. How does Vietnam's public safety net affect outcomes for the poor? Although social welfare programs in Vietnam are centrally mandated, they are locally implemented according to local norms and local poverty standards and often rely heavily on local financing. Van de Walle examines the coverage, incidence, and horizontal equity of the programs that can be identified in the data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey. She looks at the role of location in determining whether the poor are assisted nationally. And she explores dynamic incidence between 1993 and 1998 and the degree to which programs performed a safety net function. The author's analysis shows that coverage and payments to households are low and have had a negligible impact on poverty. In principle, better targeting could improve the impact of current outlays. The analysis also shows that the system was ineffective in protecting households that were vulnerable to shocks. Finally, the results suggest that although there is a greater concentration of poverty-related programs and greater household participation in poorer communes, the system spends more (absolutely and relatively) on the poor in richer communes. This paper-a product of Public Services, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to improve the delivery and effectiveness of social protection programs. The author may be contacted at dvandewalle@worldbank.org.
10.1596/1813-9450-2791
Economic Growth
Finance and Financial Sector Development
Financial Literacy
Health, Nutrition and Population
Horizontal Equity
Household Transfers
Household Welfare
Income
Living Standards
Natural Disasters
Poor
Population Policies
Poverty
Poverty Alleviation
Poverty Reduction
Public Safety Net
Public Transfers
Resource Mobilization
Rural Development
Rural Population
Rural Poverty Reduction
Safety Net Programs
Safety Nets and Transfers
Services and Transfers to Poor
Social Protections and Labor
Social Welfare
Targeting
Transfers
Welfare Programs
The Static and Dynamic Incidence of Vietnam's Public Safety Net Walle, de van Dominique [electronic resource] / Walle, de van Dominique - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2002 - 1 online resource (54 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .
Vietnam's social welfare programs do not adequately protect and promote the poor. Increased spending, with better coverage and targeting, could help poor and vulnerable households. How does Vietnam's public safety net affect outcomes for the poor? Although social welfare programs in Vietnam are centrally mandated, they are locally implemented according to local norms and local poverty standards and often rely heavily on local financing. Van de Walle examines the coverage, incidence, and horizontal equity of the programs that can be identified in the data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey. She looks at the role of location in determining whether the poor are assisted nationally. And she explores dynamic incidence between 1993 and 1998 and the degree to which programs performed a safety net function. The author's analysis shows that coverage and payments to households are low and have had a negligible impact on poverty. In principle, better targeting could improve the impact of current outlays. The analysis also shows that the system was ineffective in protecting households that were vulnerable to shocks. Finally, the results suggest that although there is a greater concentration of poverty-related programs and greater household participation in poorer communes, the system spends more (absolutely and relatively) on the poor in richer communes. This paper-a product of Public Services, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to improve the delivery and effectiveness of social protection programs. The author may be contacted at dvandewalle@worldbank.org.
10.1596/1813-9450-2791
Economic Growth
Finance and Financial Sector Development
Financial Literacy
Health, Nutrition and Population
Horizontal Equity
Household Transfers
Household Welfare
Income
Living Standards
Natural Disasters
Poor
Population Policies
Poverty
Poverty Alleviation
Poverty Reduction
Public Safety Net
Public Transfers
Resource Mobilization
Rural Development
Rural Population
Rural Poverty Reduction
Safety Net Programs
Safety Nets and Transfers
Services and Transfers to Poor
Social Protections and Labor
Social Welfare
Targeting
Transfers
Welfare Programs