Minh Cong Nguyen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minh Cong Nguyen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minh Cong |
| FAMILY NAME | Nguyen |
| SIGNATURE | NGUYEN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6431-0815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty and inequality
Higher temperatures are expected to impact globally on poverty and inequality, yet little cross-country analysis exists to quantify the effects. Here we analyse a panel dataset of subnational poverty in 130 countries covering the past decade and find that a 1 °C increase in temperature causes headcount poverty increases of 0.63–1.18 percentage points, using the daily poverty lines of US$2.15 (corresponding to 8.3% and 15.6% increases), and increa…
A parsimonious approach to predicting income distributions
Attitudes towards reducing fossil fuel subsidies
This study examines which factors influence support for reducing fossil fuel subsidies and what types of information shift people’s views through surveying 37,000 respondents across 12 middle-income countries that provided over US$750 billion in explicit and implicit subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022. Respondents were randomly allocated to receive information about the relative cost of fossil fuel subsidies, how they are regressive, or worsen cl…
On the Construction of the World Bank’s Subnational Poverty and Inequality Databases
In many countries, large differences in poverty persist at the subnational level. In addition, global challenges such as climate change, fragility, economic crises, and food insecurity are often trans-border issues that pose significant risks for poverty reduction both across and within countries. Traditional poverty measures are generally presented at the national level, potentially obscuring local and regional variations of poverty and inequali…
October 2022 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) presents a broader understanding of poverty beyond just the monetary dimension by incorporating access to education and basic infrastructure as additional dimension of well-being. It aims to thus highlight additional deprivations experienced by poor households beyond the monetary headcount ratio at the 2.15 dollars international poverty line. To estimate the MPM in a standard way for as many…
March 2021 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The March 2021 update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) involves changes to the data underlying the multidimensional poverty estimates based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD). This update reports new estimates for circa 2017, revising the estimates that were first published in October 2020. Some changes reflect the availability of more recent survey data for the economies already part of the GMD. Other changes are due to the add…
Child Labor, Human Rights and Social Justice in Viet Nam
On the playgrounds of America, every kid's goal is to score. In Asia, where children stitch soccer balls for six cents an hour, the goal is to survive. (Sydney Schanberg, 1996, Life Magazine).In th
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer
Given the stress and uncertainty of struggling with a serious disease, it is important to understand and identify factors related to the mental health of women with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of health perceptions, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), and social support on the mental health of women with breast cancer living in the U.S. Data for this study were obtained from the 2017 Health Information Nati…
Trading Together
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA's economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks-most notably, intensi…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
Who are the Poor in the Developing World
This paper presents a new demographic \n profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those \n living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per \n day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 \n developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural \n and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of \n the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45 percent of \n the extreme poor are children younger than 1…
Understanding the roles of faith-based health-care providers in Africa
Child Marriage, Education, and Agency in Uganda
This contribution relies on four different approaches and data sources to assess and discuss the impact of child marriage on secondary school enrollment and completion in Uganda. The four data sources are: (1) qualitative evidence on differences in community and parental preferences for the education of boys and girls and on the higher likelihood of girls to drop out of school in comparison to boys; (2) reasons declared by parents as to why their…
Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage
Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not only its incidence, but also what we refer to as the child marriage gap and the squared child marriage gap, two measures that take into account how yo…
Market Share of Faith-Inspired Health Care Providers in Africa
Market share estimates—typically in the 30 percent to 40 percent range—are frequently wielded as the most concrete evidence of faith-inspired activity and impact in the area of health care provision in Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, there are few speeches, reports, or articles that do not make some mention of market share, attaching some percentage to the significance of faith-inspired healthcare provision in the continent as a whole, or in specifi…
The impact of migration on food consumption patterns
A New Profile of the Global Poor
Child Marriage, Education, and Agency in Uganda
This contribution relies on four different approaches and data sources to assess and discuss the impact of child marriage on secondary school enrollment and completion in Uganda. The four data sources are: (1) qualitative evidence on differences in community and parental preferences for the education of boys and girls and on the higher likelihood of girls to drop out of school in comparison to boys; (2) reasons declared by parents as to why their…
The impact of migration on food consumption patterns
Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage
Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not only its incidence, but also what we refer to as the child marriage gap and the squared child marriage gap, two measures that take into account how yo…
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer
Given the stress and uncertainty of struggling with a serious disease, it is important to understand and identify factors related to the mental health of women with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of health perceptions, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), and social support on the mental health of women with breast cancer living in the U.S. Data for this study were obtained from the 2017 Health Information Nati…
Market Share of Faith-Inspired Health Care Providers in Africa
Market share estimates—typically in the 30 percent to 40 percent range—are frequently wielded as the most concrete evidence of faith-inspired activity and impact in the area of health care provision in Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, there are few speeches, reports, or articles that do not make some mention of market share, attaching some percentage to the significance of faith-inspired healthcare provision in the continent as a whole, or in specifi…
The impact of migration on food consumption patterns
Market Share of Faith-Inspired Health Care Providers in Africa
Market share estimates—typically in the 30 percent to 40 percent range—are frequently wielded as the most concrete evidence of faith-inspired activity and impact in the area of health care provision in Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, there are few speeches, reports, or articles that do not make some mention of market share, attaching some percentage to the significance of faith-inspired healthcare provision in the continent as a whole, or in specifi…
Understanding the roles of faith-based health-care providers in Africa
Child Marriage, Education, and Agency in Uganda
This contribution relies on four different approaches and data sources to assess and discuss the impact of child marriage on secondary school enrollment and completion in Uganda. The four data sources are: (1) qualitative evidence on differences in community and parental preferences for the education of boys and girls and on the higher likelihood of girls to drop out of school in comparison to boys; (2) reasons declared by parents as to why their…
Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage
Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not only its incidence, but also what we refer to as the child marriage gap and the squared child marriage gap, two measures that take into account how yo…
Who are the Poor in the Developing World
This paper presents a new demographic \n profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those \n living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per \n day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 \n developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural \n and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of \n the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45 percent of \n the extreme poor are children younger than 1…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
A New Profile of the Global Poor
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme…
Trading Together
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA's economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks-most notably, intensi…
March 2021 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The March 2021 update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) involves changes to the data underlying the multidimensional poverty estimates based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD). This update reports new estimates for circa 2017, revising the estimates that were first published in October 2020. Some changes reflect the availability of more recent survey data for the economies already part of the GMD. Other changes are due to the add…
Child Labor, Human Rights and Social Justice in Viet Nam
On the playgrounds of America, every kid's goal is to score. In Asia, where children stitch soccer balls for six cents an hour, the goal is to survive. (Sydney Schanberg, 1996, Life Magazine).In th
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer
Given the stress and uncertainty of struggling with a serious disease, it is important to understand and identify factors related to the mental health of women with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of health perceptions, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), and social support on the mental health of women with breast cancer living in the U.S. Data for this study were obtained from the 2017 Health Information Nati…
October 2022 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) presents a broader understanding of poverty beyond just the monetary dimension by incorporating access to education and basic infrastructure as additional dimension of well-being. It aims to thus highlight additional deprivations experienced by poor households beyond the monetary headcount ratio at the 2.15 dollars international poverty line. To estimate the MPM in a standard way for as many…
On the Construction of the World Bank’s Subnational Poverty and Inequality Databases
In many countries, large differences in poverty persist at the subnational level. In addition, global challenges such as climate change, fragility, economic crises, and food insecurity are often trans-border issues that pose significant risks for poverty reduction both across and within countries. Traditional poverty measures are generally presented at the national level, potentially obscuring local and regional variations of poverty and inequali…
A parsimonious approach to predicting income distributions
Attitudes towards reducing fossil fuel subsidies
This study examines which factors influence support for reducing fossil fuel subsidies and what types of information shift people’s views through surveying 37,000 respondents across 12 middle-income countries that provided over US$750 billion in explicit and implicit subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022. Respondents were randomly allocated to receive information about the relative cost of fossil fuel subsidies, how they are regressive, or worsen cl…
Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty and inequality
Higher temperatures are expected to impact globally on poverty and inequality, yet little cross-country analysis exists to quantify the effects. Here we analyse a panel dataset of subnational poverty in 130 countries covering the past decade and find that a 1 °C increase in temperature causes headcount poverty increases of 0.63–1.18 percentage points, using the daily poverty lines of US$2.15 (corresponding to 8.3% and 15.6% increases), and increa…
Economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works)