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Viet Nam : Transition as a Socialist Project in East Asia.

Montes, M-F - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997

In analyzing Viet Nam's recent economic adjustments, this paper attempts to distinguish events and policies that are properly assigned to the trasition effort and those more properly associated with economic development.

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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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Are Spatial Networks of Firms Random? Evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Carol, Newman; Thijssen, Jacco - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

-level panel data from Vietnam we calculate transitivity, a measure to determine the strength of clustering of manufacturing firms …

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Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation, Crops and Hydropower in Vietnam

Gebretsadik, Yohannes; Fant, Charles; Strzepek, Kenneth - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Vietnam is among the countries that are assumed to be highly affected by the impacts of climate change through sea …

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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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Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Climate change is a potential threat to Vietnam.s development as current and future infrastructure will be vulnerable … to climate change impacts. This paper focuses on the physical asset of road infrastructure in Vietnam by evaluating the …

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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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Ordinal Welfare Comparisons with Multiple Discrete Indicators:A First Order Dominance Approach and Application to Child Poverty

Arndt, Channing; Distante, Roberta; Hussain, M. Azhar; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well-being indicators observed at the micro level. The approach is rooted in the concept of multidimensional first order dominance. It assumes that, f

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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 … Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to poverty … reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of Mozambican …

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