This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from 1990 to 2018. The study was motivated by the need to establish if burgeoning foreign capital inflows in Vietnam can support the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct...

This paper extends Boyd and Smith's (1997) two-country model to analyze the roles of financial factors as a source of poverty traps in open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic, open economy model embedded with international credit markets. We assume that firms across countries face an...