incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under … emergence from poverty depend on individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully …

Vietnam's integration with the international economy has increased significantly over the past decade, aided by … dramatic shift in Vietnam's trading patterns has important implications for the environment and use of natural resources. This … Vietnam's joining of the World Trade Organization. …

improvement in welfare as evidenced by the drastic decline in poverty. Using analytical and empirical methods, the author examines …

attributed to trade reforms to changes in household welfare, income distribution, and poverty using theoretically consistent … measures of producer and consumer welfare. The author investigates the effects on poverty and income distribution of national … and international market integration in Vietnam's rice sector and fertilizer market between 1993 and 1998, a period of …

This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …

Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic …

How does Vietnam's public safety net affect outcomes for the poor? Although social welfare programs in Vietnam are … centrally mandated, they are locally implemented according to local norms and local poverty standards and often rely heavily on … in the data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey. She looks at the role of location in determining whether the poor …

The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with … data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. The …

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …