Author: Truong Chi Trung
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-00-25
Year: 2000
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2000
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Karl E. Weber (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: In Vietnam, since early 1990s, the issue of poverty has been a major concerns of many government organization, NGOS as well as international funding agencies. A wide range of strategies and policies have been adopted in search of an effective measure that can put an end to or at least alleviate poverty and inequality. The quest for an appropriate strategy has ranged from the policy formulation at national level to project planning and implementation at local level. Although one should feel optimist about the success of the poverty oriented programs but be aware of the fact that problems associated with such programs are still challenging. This study aims at exploring the situation, characteristics, determinants, and causal relationships of poverty on one side. On the other, the study attempts to examine achievements and shortcomings of selected Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) focused on poverty alleviation. People’s perception about the IRDP is also added to the scope of analysis. It has been found that poverty incidence is varied much by regions and occupational groups but it is most acute among rural farmers, particularly in mountainous region and among the minority tribes. The poor are differently distinguished from the remaining population in a range of social, economic, institutional and demographic dimensions. All these dimensions of poverty interact each other to keep the poor in the vicious circle as Chamber stated. However, factor analysis explores that the poverty in the study area is mostly explained by income and production factors. Furthermore, findings from multiple regression analysis shows that dimensions determining the deprivation of the rural poor include the farm size, rice productivity, value of productive asset and number of occupations. This result is strongly supported by the perception of people about the cause of poverty as they reported that lack of credit, lack of technical know-how, limited amount of land are the most important causes of poverty in the study area. The s
Scholarship Donor(s): United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science
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