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This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of trade reforms on household welfare. In particular, it studies the importance of each of the links that together constitute the impact using data from the Vietnamese experience in the 1990s. The implementation of trade reforms in the 1990s, most noteworthy of...
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Vietnam's integration with the international economy has increased significantly over the past decade, aided by … dramatic shift in Vietnam's trading patterns has important implications for the environment and use of natural resources. This … Vietnam's joining of the World Trade Organization …
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This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services, or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized facts. Using a measure that combines the sophistication of a country's exports with the average...
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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question by combining a nonexperimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam with qualitative data …
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nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam reveal evidence of habit formation. A novel test based on the Euler …
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Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This … success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also … long-term sustainability without jeopardizing security of supply for the fast-growing economy. Vietnam's 2004 Electricity …
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suitable price data. In this paper, data from Vietnam are used to test this method against benchmarks provided by multilateral …
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adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
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