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Models and Practices in the Motor Vehicle Industry – contrasting cases from the Portuguese experience
Machado, Tiago; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper presents and discusses two case studies in the Portuguese motor vehicle industry – Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial Division (SCOID), a ‘Brownfield site’ with minority Toyota ownership; and Autoeuropa, a ‘Greenfield site’ wholly owned by Volkswagen. Basically, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836464
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Environmental Kuznets curve and domestic material consumption indicator: an European analysis
Auci, Sabrina; Vignani, Donatella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In our paper, we investigate the relation between per capita Domestic Material Consumption indicator (DMC) assumed as a potential environmental degradation indicator and per capita income. DMC is a physical measure developed by official statistics in recent years and derived from a Satellite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260389
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Impacts of International and Internal Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685536
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Social Protection in the Mekong: policy trends and future directions
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107639
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Access To Basic Social Services: An Evaluation From The Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys
Nguyen, Cuong; Giang, Long - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112617
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Measuring the Impact of Cash Crops on Household Expenditure and Poverty in Rural Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642704
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Analyzing the Determinants of Services Trade Flow between Vietnam and European Union: Gravity Model Approach
Dao, Ngoc Tien; Pham, Van Nho; Doan, Quang Hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271324
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Trade Liberalisation and Spatial Inequality: Methodological Innovations in Vietnamese Perspective
Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253059
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Household business index in Vietnam: a small area estimation method
Nguyen, Cuong; Do, Trang; Phung, Thu; Phung, Tung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258618
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Poverty of Ethnic Minorities in the Poorest Areas of Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258845