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Viet Nam was a country ruled by colonists, divided, or at war for most of the 20th century. Unification of the country in 1976 was followed by the invasion of Cambodia in 1978, and a subsequent brief but violent war with the People’s Republic of China. This legacy had profound consequences for...
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, accompanied by corresponding tax cuts, in a general equilibrium framework applied to Vietnam. This policy is shown to have strong … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …
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Compared with its ASEAN neighbors, Vietnam appears to have weathered the Asian crisis quite well. Official statistics …
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Thailand has recently strengthened its economic policy toward its neighboring countries in coordination with domestic regional development. It is widely recognized that economic cooperation with neighboring countries is essential in preventing the inflow of illegal labor and effectively...
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This paper examines Vietnam’s experience with bilateral trade agreements and compares subsequent outcomes with …
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such as RoHS and REACH on the production costs and export performance of firms in Malaysia and Vietnam. We find that in …
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Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of corporate social responsibility initiatives and...
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Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 … covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
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There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...
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the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (2002, 2006, and 2010), we estimate re-centered influence functions to …
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