This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of …

experiences of Mozambique and Vietnam—two countries with similar levels and compositions of economic growth but divergent poverty … Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to poverty …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this …

left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate …Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable …

"This book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar …, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures … growth and poverty, which lead to some groups gaining from episodes of economic growth and others being left behind. Growth …

. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an …