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 …