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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 … targeting have become more pronounced over time in Vietnam. Although poverty reduction in Vietnam has been impressive, further …
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The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...
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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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(Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross …
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