institutions are weak. This paper explores their role in household micro-enterprise operation and success in the rural low …-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital and political connections assist households in accessing resources … necessary to establish and operate an enterprise. Using three waves of panel data on a large sample of households surveyed …

trade liberalization. This paper aims to find out the determinants of welfare of rural households in Vietnam, focusing on … micro-growth model and tests it on the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSS) 2006 and 2008. What makes the … that welfare of rural households in the provinces with strong institutional reforms and trade openness tends to be improved …

data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ three standard …

This paper offers estimates of the underreporting of income by selfemployed workers using the Spanish household surveys …

develop a method for assigning households to the informal sector by inferring informal sector activity using income and … expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a … the informal sector acts as a buffer for households during periods of crisis when formal sector employment opportunities …

Bank of Chile in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, which covers between 1,740 and 2,533 urban households, performing both OLS and … probit regressions. The cross-section regression results indicate that, in general, informal households save less than formal … households. Further, descriptive data indicate that informal workers have less access to financial services and possess less …

former partnership between James Wolfensohn and Peter Eigen.With the prelude to the systematization of household surveys, a … new way to measure governance and corruption emerged. Although the data resulting from household surveys provides … investigate the gap between expert and household surveys regarding the measurement of corruption. Indeed, experts and populations …