The “great recession” of 2008–09 affected Thailand significantly, reducing exports by 19% and tourist arrivals by 14 …

Vietnam. Rural higher education is shown to promote knowledge-intensive production by encouraging skilled individuals to …

poverty agenda. This is particularly apparent in countries like Uganda where “poverty reduction papers” have been displaced by … influence. Moreover, Uganda currently lacks the underlying political capacities and relationships required to roll out this …

We use data on households’ bribery of public officials in Peru and Uganda to analyze the distribution by income of the …

on gender-differentiated land outcomes in Northern Uganda. We exploit exogenous variation in displacement to identify … outcomes. Policy and programmatic attention to gender in land governance in Uganda should continue to be emphasized. …

Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score matching with multiple treatments, we find that Fairtrade certification …

assessing vulnerability to poverty in Thailand and Vietnam. Using data from surveys conducted in 2007 and 2008 we show that …

panel data from Thailand and Vietnam we develop an empirical approach to quantify our measure. More precisely, we predict …

. Using panel data of over 4000 rural households from Thailand and Vietnam, strong evidence of heterogeneity among subgroups …-headed ones are found to be richer in Thailand, but prone to more severe shocks in both countries. Furthermore, our results … suggest that in Thailand single female-headed households are less vulnerable to poverty than households headed by men. However …