Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent … and poverty alleviation have been maintained at the expense of renewed inflation, larger budget deficits, and currency … crisis ; great recession ; Vietnam …

Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent … and poverty alleviation have been maintained at the expense of renewed inflation, larger budget deficits, and currency …

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors … policy as tool for poverty reduction should be on approaches that are relatively easy to implement but have a trackrecord of … of poverty reduction, competition policy needs to address the needs of the citizens of poorer societies in their …

its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. -- Vietnam ; globalization ; trade ; poverty ; economic …Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … introduction of its doi moi ("renovation") economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz … in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …