The impact of natural disasters on household income, expenditure, poverty and inequality: evidence from Vietnam
By Anh Tuan Bui, Mardi Dungey, C. Nguyen, Thu Phuong Pham. 2014
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Natural disasters are expected exacerbate poverty and inequality, but little evidence exists to support the impact at household level. This article examines the effect of natural disasters on household income, expenditure, poverty and inequality using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2008. The effects of a natural disaster on household income and expenditure, corrected for fixed effects and potential endogeneity bias, are estimated at 6.9% and 7.1% declines in Vietnamese household per capita income and expenditure, respectively. Natural disasters demonstrably worsen expenditure poverty and inequality in Vietnam, and thus should be considered as a factor in designing poverty alleviation policies.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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- Exposure to Floods, Climate Change, and Poverty in Vietnam (2016, background): “Within Vietnam, studies suggest that floods significantly impact poverty, both quantitatively at the national level using 20 household survey data (Bui et al. 2014) and qualitatively through focus group interviews at the local level in Ho Chi Minh City (World Bank and Australian AID 2014).”