This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from … the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and external debt were used as proxies for foreign capital … inflows; and infant mortality rate, Human Development Index (HDI) and household consumption expenditure were used as poverty …

social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …