a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education …

a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education …

poverty depend upon individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To more fully realize …'s accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization was heterogeneous … is likely to lagged behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under comparable scenarios …

During the 1990s, Vietnam’s economy was transformed through a series of economic, social and political reforms … a dramatic fall in the incidence of consumption per capita poverty. This paper examines the changes in poverty and … poverty dynamics over the 1990s using a nationally representative panel of households surveyed in 1992-93 and 1997-98. We …

labor-intensive, reduces employment and increases poverty, especially when labor supply is responsive to wages. The use of … revenues to increase transfers to households can offset poverty increases, but does not create jobs; thus the tax will likely …

micro-simulation model used for poverty and income distribution analysis. The first two simulations showed that the policies …

developments might affect the broader economy in SASEC, and in particular impact on income distribution and poverty. The paper …