"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. "--World Bank web site …

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 …

People's Democratic Republic, and Vietnam), whose performance in export and income growth has been strikingly better than …

"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for … women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …