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matrix for Vietnam, mapping on a one-to-one basis to each other. Distinct differences in poverty assessments emerge when the … indicate that poverty will rise following a revenue-neutral lowering of trade taxes. This is interpreted as a worst case … response to avoid increasing poverty in the short to medium term …
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This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of …
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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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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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. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that …
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an …
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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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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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Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impac
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