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The transition to a market economy in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union has been associated with greater inequality and social stratification. This paper prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on "Income Distribution and Social Structure during the Transition' analyses trends in social...
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left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate …Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable …
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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 …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this …
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Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … introduction of its doi moi (.renovation.) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam.s economic strategy has been … state-owned enterprises while encouraging growth of the private sector. Following an .East Asian. model, Vietnam has opened …
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This paper investigates the impact labour regulation, as defined by labour standards, have on the international trade regime. After providing a description of the debate's landscape, the paper focuses on the questions: Could the adoption of a domestic labour standard improve welfare for an...
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This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on …, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures of poverty. …
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This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient-related morbidity via the changes which have occurred in food consumption in terms of average intake, its ditribution and the quality of diets.
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