Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

agriculture in which most of the poor work and live. The household survey data documents a limited reduction in consumption … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …