This study explores the effects of Vietnam's transition on the welfare of different ethnic groups in rural Vietnam. It …

Thanks to the high economic growth rate during the last 20 years, Vietnam is expected to join the middle-income country … group by around 2010. The global financial crisis has severely impacted many countries, including Vietnam. The crisis … economy, and begged the question whether Vietnam can continue her present course of economic development in the face of a …

the determinants of the workers' choice of jobs and income in two village-based industrial clusters in Northern Vietnam …

This paper examines the impacts of the current economic slowdown on employment generation and unemployment in Vietnam … million jobs in 2009. And if the growth prospect of 2010 is not improved compared to that of 2009, Vietnam would encounter a …

By using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2004, this paper seeks to quantify the potential role and … impacts of a social pension scheme for reducing elderly poverty in Vietnam. We simulate how the poverty rate, poverty gap, and … to Vietnam in the past. We consider a number of categorical targeting groups of elderly people along with various …

Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) in 2006, this paper analyzes the current working …

. Existing research suggests that Vietnam is not an exception to the pattern. However, the rate of return in period from 1992 to … the earnings equations (see Appendix B). The low returns may result from the gradual economic reforms applied in Vietnam … schooling in Vietnam is rising and reaches other transitional economies’ rate of returns, we re-examine the trend in the rate of …

(Vietnam) and vegetables safety. Food safety issues and trust building process in the Vietnamese food chain have changed …