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The Economic Costs of Climate Change: A Multi-Sector Impact Assessment for Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that …

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Exporting and productivity: The role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Thi Tue Anh, Nguyen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an …

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Industry Switching in Developing Countries

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Firm turnover (i.e. firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sectorlevel productivity growth across developing and developed countries. In contrast, the role and importance of firms switching activities from one sector to another is little understood. Firm switchers are likely to be...

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Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van Den Broeck, Katleen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In t

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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Garcia, Andres; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

experiences of Mozambique and Vietnam—two countries with similar levels and compositions of economic growth but divergent poverty … outcomes. We find that the structure of the Vietnamese economy more naturally lends itself to generating broad-based growth. A … Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to poverty …

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Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper uses a unique panel dataset on firm-level corruption. It contains quantitative information on bribe payments by a sample of formal and informal Vietnamese firms. We show that bribe incidence is highly associated with firm-level differences in (i) visibility, (ii) sunk costs, (iii)...

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Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective

Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam

McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive …

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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters: Evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

source from Vietnam for 2002 to 2007, a period of significant transition. We address issues of simultaneity, self …

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Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving Forces

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what

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