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Poverty reduction and economic structure: Comparative path analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Garcia, Andres; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 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 … in Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to …

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On the empirics of foreign aid and growth

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik; Tarp, Finn - 2002

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On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik; Tarp, Finn - 2003

This paper takes a fresh look at two issues in the aid effectiveness debate. We begin by providing theoretical foundations for the various claims made with regard to the effectiveness of aid in stimulating long-run productivity. When foreign aid is modelled as an exogenous transfer of income or...

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Institutions and Economic Performance - Getting Institutions Right

Rodrik, Dani - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 10-15

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Does managerial personality matter? Evidence from firms in Viet Nam

Sharma, Smriti; Tarp, Finn - 2018

transition economy. …

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Risk and investment: Evidence from rural Viet Nam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

This paper explores the impact of exposure to uninsured risks on the investment decisions of farmers. We distinguish between households' perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels, and the actual realization of shocks. We examine how...

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Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashes

Tarp, Finn - 2018

reliance on market forces in the allocation of resources and the determination of prices. The shift from an economy completely … roles. Significant strides have been made to further the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, without …

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Welfare dynamics in rural Viet Nam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel data

McKay, Andrew D.; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2018

While many studies of welfare dynamics have been conducted using panel data sets with two or three waves, much richer insights can be obtained where more waves are available. This paper analyses this issue for the case of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey, a carefully collected...

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Information, identification, or neither? Experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

How can development programmes reach out to remote communities? This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income sources. The experiment took place in three provinces of...

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Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of corporate social responsibility initiatives and...

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