PRESS RELEASE: Vietnam: Poverty Scorecard Used by Microfinance Field Workers to More Efficiently Rate Household Poverty Levels

Source: Microfinance.com

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KANSAS CITY, U.S., March 28 – This [March 2009] study Scoring: The Next Breakthrough in Microcredit, uses the 2006 Vietnamese Household Living Standards Survey to construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a household has expenditure below a given poverty line. The scorecard uses ten simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Poverty scores can be computed on paper in the field in about five to ten minutes. The scorecard’s accuracy and precision are reported for a range of poverty lines. The poverty scorecard is a practical way for pro-poor programs in Vietnam to monitor poverty rates, track changes in poverty rates over time, and target services. This document updates an earlier one that was based on the 2004 Vietnamese Household Living Standards Survey.

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