development�three low-income countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique), and three emerging market countries (Malaysia, the Philippines …

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function …

Vietnam) during 1993–2013. The main findings include: (i) both China and India have recently exhibited a slowdown in potential … ASEAN countries has been rather stable and might even have increased marginally, with the notable exception of Vietnam …