TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walle,de van Dominique
AU  - Walle,de van Dominique
TI  - The Static and Dynamic Incidence of Vietnam's Public Safety Net
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Economic Growth
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial Literacy
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - Horizontal Equity
KW  - Household Transfers
KW  - Household Welfare
KW  - Income
KW  - Living Standards
KW  - Natural Disasters
KW  - Poor
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Poverty Alleviation
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Public Safety Net
KW  - Public Transfers
KW  - Resource Mobilization
KW  - Rural Development
KW  - Rural Population
KW  - Rural Poverty Reduction
KW  - Safety Net Programs
KW  - Safety Nets and Transfers
KW  - Services and Transfers to Poor
KW  - Social Protections and Labor
KW  - Social Welfare
KW  - Targeting
KW  - Transfers
KW  - Welfare Programs
N2  - 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
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-2791
ER  -