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

poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … of the poor (as reflected in the $1-day squared poverty gap). It is also up to 3.2 times better at reducing $1-day …