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Political Connections and Investment in Rural Vietnam

Tarp, Finn; Markussen, Thomas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

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

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Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions

Naude, Wim; McGillivray, Mark; Rossouw, Stephanie - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries. By focusing on the vulnerability of subnational regions, our paper...

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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Garcia, Andres; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

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 …

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Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective

Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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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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Industry Switching in Developing Countries

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Firm turnover (i.e. firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sectorlevel productivity growth across developing and developed countries. In contrast, the role and importance of firms switching activities from one sector to another is little understood. Firm switchers are likely to be...

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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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