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This paper measures the impact of international and internal remittances on household welfare of remittances-receiving households using data from Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys 2002 and 2004. It is found that the receiving of international and internal remittances increased both...
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The paper analyses the current and possible future development of social protection systems in three Mekong countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. The three countries are at differing levels of development but face a number of shared challenges including poverty and malnutrition, climate...
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This study aims to evaluate access to social services of the most vulnerable groups of Vietnamese people, as well as propose some policy recommendations for improving targeting mechanisms for the social protection system in Viet Nam. We will use the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys in...
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This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using data from the Viet Nam household living standards surveys (VHLSSs) of 2002 and 2004. It has been found that revenues from cash crops have positive and statistically significant...
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This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of services trade flows between Vietnam and European Union. In this … of ten years from 2002 to 2011 for total services trade, services exports and services imports between Vietnam and … Vietnam and its European partner countries are mainly affected by GDP per capita gap between Vietnam and partner countries …
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This paper develops a SAM database encompassing 6,002 representative Vietnamese households, mapping one-to-one with 16 aggregate households. The database is used to calibrate two Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models with respectively 16 aggregate and 6,002 disaggregate households....
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levels in the rural areas of Vietnam. In order to construct the FI, we implemented a survey of 900 business households in … three provinces in Vietnam. Then we estimate the FI for these 900 sampled households. Next, we use a small area estimation … method to combine this business household survey and the 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census to estimate the FI for …
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communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period …
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Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline …
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from Vietnam Enterprise Censuses during 2008-2010. It is found that minimum wages reduce firms’ labor size, albeit at a …
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