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The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam

Thurlow, James; Tarp, Finn; McCoy, Simon; Hai, Ngugyen Manh - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

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 …

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The Economic Costs of Climate Change: A Multi-Sector Impact Assessment for Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

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

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Exporting and productivity: The role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Thi Tue Anh, Nguyen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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

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Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van Den Broeck, Katleen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In t

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Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam

McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impac

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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters: Evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

source from Vietnam for 2002 to 2007, a period of significant transition. We address issues of simultaneity, self …

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Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving Forces

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what

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The happy farmer: Self-employment and subjective well-being in rural Vietnam

Markussen, Thomas; Fibaek, Maria; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self …

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