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In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in …
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This paper summarizes the socioeconomic conditions of children around the world. It explores solutions to the main problems, along with a summary of the costs and benefits of some of the solutions. Emphasis is on the results from rigorous studies, impact evaluations, and randomized experiments....
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One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...
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This study uses the Ethiopia Skills Profile Survey (2017) to examine the gender differences in livelihood opportunities … in employment, and that household characteristics influence women's economic opportunities. While having a female … household head, access to agricultural land, and the number of female adults increased female participation in economic …
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on how they vary within the city and how they are related to household characteristics. First, drawing on a household …
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households, including a secure place to live, the means of a livelihood, protection during emergencies, and collateral for credit … with respect to data collection on assets at both the household and individual levels, and shows how various questions on … individually owned assets can be incorporated with a minimum of effort and cost into existing multi-topic household surveys, using …
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ethnic groups in Vietnam. Using data from the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey and 1999 Census, they show that Kinh and … Hoa ("majority") households have substantially higher living standards than "minority" households from Vietnam's other 52 …
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This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative … coverage of infrastructure services in Vietnam even before the reforms. When service availability is very similar across … different localities, household characteristics become more important in determining the response. …
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on the ex durante impacts of the conflict on the food security and livelihood activities of affected households. The …-farm livelihood activities. Non-farm and wage-related activities have been the most affected by the conflict, while farming activities …
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attributed to trade reforms to changes in household welfare, income distribution, and poverty using theoretically consistent … and international market integration in Vietnam's rice sector and fertilizer market between 1993 and 1998, a period of … effects of opening the rice and fertilizer market are isolated, Vietnam's agricultural trade reforms did not contribute to a …
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