This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of …

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 …

Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent … and poverty alleviation have been maintained at the expense of renewed inflation, larger budget deficits, and currency …

poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … of the poor (as reflected in the $1-day squared poverty gap). It is also up to 3.2 times better at reducing $1-day …